HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 5148-1966 - Portion Of Orlando Ave 19Th St To 18Th St One Way Street. - 12/08/1966TB;kks
ORDINANCE NO, 5148 ----------
AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THAT PORTION OF ORLANDO AVENUE
FROM NINETEENTH STREET TO EIGHTEENTH STREET AS A ONE ... WAY STR
AND PERMITTING ONLY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC PROCEEDING NORTH ON SA
PORTION OF SAID STREET; PROVIDING FOR SIGNS TO INDICATE THAT SAID
PORTION OF SAID STREET IS ONE ... WAY; PRESCRIBING A PENALTY; DE ..
CLARING AN EMERGENCY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF THE DESCRIP
TIVE CAPTION AND PENALTY CLAUSE HEREOF AS AN ALTERNATIVE ME ...
THOD OF PUBLICATION PROVIDED BY LAw.··
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the immediate preservation of
public peace, property, health and safety requires that vehicular traffic on
Orlando Avenue from Nineteenth Street to Eighteenth Street should be permitted
to proceed only in a Northerly direction as more particularly hereinafter des ...
cribed; and,
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WHEREAS, the urgent need for such preservation of public peace, prope y,
health and safety creates an emergency requiring suspension of the rules requir· g
two readings of an ordinance before final passage thereof; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
Section 1. THAT portion of Orlando Avenue in the City of Lubbock, Lub ..
bock County, Texas, from Nineteenth Street to Eighteenth Street is hereby desig
nated as a one-way street and only vehicular traffic proceeding North on Orlando
Avenue beginning at its intersection with Nineteenth Street to its intersection wit
Eighteenth Street shall be permitted thereon.
Section 2. The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to
place or cause the placing of the necessary traffic signs to indicate that the por ...
tion of Orlando Avenue described in Section 1 hereof is a one ... way street.
Section 3. Any person operating a vehicle in violation of the foregoing
provisions of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined any sum not to exceed
$200. oo.
Section 4. The fact that the City Council has found conditions described i
the preamble creating an emergency requires that the rules requiring two readin s
of an Ordinance before its final passage are hereby suspended.
Section 5. The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to cause
publication of the descriptive caption and penalty clause hereof as an alternative
method of publication as provided by law and this Ordinance shall become effec ..
tive ten (10) days after its last publication.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
Passed by the Council this 8th day of December ~ 1966. ______ ..,.....__ -----'--.c...,..............,......;. _____ --:::
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Asst. Cily Attorney