HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 5908-1970 - Amending Section 18-102 Of The Code Of City Ordinances - 07/09/1970"----" d1n" e., ... i~ \. ~~ ~ · t, 19 J • ORDINANCE NO. 5908 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 18-102 OF THE CODE OF ORDIN-ANCES OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS ENTITLED "IMPOUNDING OF IL-LEGALLY PARKED OR ABANDONED VEHICLES;." INCREASING THE IMPOUND-ING FEE TO THE SUM OF TEN DOLLARS ($10. 00) AND STORAGE FEE TO SEVENTY-FIVE (75) CENTS PER DAY. WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the impounding and storage fees no assessed is insufficient to defray the cost of impounding and storing illegally parked or abandoned vehicles within the City of Lubbock and public necessity and convenience requires the immediate increase of such impounding and storage fees; NOW THEREFORE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: SECTION 1. THAT Section 18-102 of the Code of City Ordinances of the City of Lubbock, Texas BE and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 18-102. Impounding of illegally parked or abandoned vehicles. -----Any vehicle parked on any public street, or in an alley,..J?.£_____ · in front of a fire hydrant, or on any part of a crosswalk, or in any loading zone in violation of any provision of this chapter or other ordinance of the city or statute of the state, or abandoned on any public street, may, upon direction of the chief of police, be removed from such place, impounded and taken to such place as is designated by the traffic division of the police department, and an impounding fee of ten dollars ($10. 00) plus storage shall be assessed against such vehicles, and the owner or driver thereof, and collected before such vehicle is released. A storage fee of seventy~ffve (75) cents for each twenty-four hours such vehicle is impounded is hereby assessed against each such vehicle and the owner, and the same shall be collected before such vehicle is released. The payment of the impounding fee shall not constitute! a defense to any charge against the driver or owner of such vehicle for violating this chapter or other traffic ordinances prohibiting or limiting such parking. The fees herein orovided for shall be charged and collected bv
AND IT IS SO ORDERED. Passed by the Council on first .reading this 9th Passed by the Council on second .reading thi'S'5 7 J ATTEST: APPROVED: ey --::-.:.J.=.u l~y~, 19 7 0. -July , 1970. YOR