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ORDINANCE NO
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 26 "MOTOR VEHICLES
AND TRAFFIC, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH
TEXAS (1964) AS AMENDED BY ADDING SECTION 26-3 (13)
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE WAY STREETS
PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE PROVIDING A PENALTY
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH TEXAS
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 26 'Motor Vehicles and Traffic of the
Code of the City of Fort Worth Texas (1964) as amended be
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amended by adding Section 26-62 such section to read as follows
Section 26-62 One Way Streets
'The city traffic engineer: is
authorized to determine and designate
any street or portion of a street as
a '°one-way'` street on which driving
is prohibited ~.n one direction and
permitted in the opposite direction
and to place or erect official traffic
control devices indicating same
SECTION 2.
That this ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions
of ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth Texas (1964)
as amended except where the provisions of this ordinance are in
direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such
Code in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and
such Code are. hereby repealed
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs sentences clauses and phrases
of this ordinance are severable and if any phrase clause sentence
paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional
by the valid judgment or decree of any Court of competent jurisdiction
such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining
phrases clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this
ordinance since the same would have been enacted by the City Council
without the incorporation of this ordinance of any such unconstitu-
tional phrase clause sentence paragraph or section
SECTION 4.
That any person who violates disobeys omits, neglects
or refuses to comply with or who resists the enforcement of any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not more than Two
Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($200 00) for each offense
SECTION 5.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth Texas is
hereby directed to publish the caption and penalty clause and ef-
fective date of this ordinance for five (5) days in the official
newspaper of the City of Fort Worth Texas as authorized by the
TEX REV CIV STATS art 1176b-1
SECTION 6.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after the date of passage and publication as above specified
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LE GALITY
City Attorney
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DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT One-Way Street Ordinance PAGE
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With the recent changing of some city streets from two way to one-way streets
some controversy has arisen over who has authority to do so Section. 26-3 of
the Code of the City of Fort Worth gives the Traffic Engineer the power to erect:
signs indicating which streets are one-way str--sets but the Code does not give
him the authority to determine and designate which streets will be one-way
streets This has created legal problems in the prosecution of tickets issued
for going the wrong way on one-way streets
The attached ordinance will amend Section 26-3 of the City Code to allow the
Traffic Engineer the same authority to designate one-way streets as he has to
designate stop sign locations truck routes parking spaces and many other
traffic related situations
Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance. giving the
Traffic Engineer the authority to determine and designate one-way streets
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