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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 936h AN ORDINANCE REGULATING "FE OPERATION OF MOTOR BUSSES IN TFE CITY OF FORT 17CRTH PRO- HIBITING THE OPERATION THEREOF ALONG, ACRbSS, UPON AND OVER CERTAIN' STREETS IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH : DEFINING A STREET : DEFINING A MO_ TOR BUS: FIXING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE: PROVIDING THAT EACH DAY'S VI- OLATION SHALL CONSTITUTE A SEPARATE OFFENSE : DECLARING AN EMERGENCY: AND THE REASON FOR THE REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED: PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE OF ORDINANCES NO. 448 470, 547 and 586 EXCEPT WHERE IN DIF.ECT C0°I?LICT AND PROVIDI?tG TIFAT TFE FOLDING OF ANY PORTfODT TFEREOF TO BE INVALID SHALL NOT AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF ANY OTTER PORTION OR PRO- VISION* BE IT .ORDAINED BY THE BOL-EM OF COM- MISSIONERS OF THu CITY OF FORT WORTH: Sec. l: Unless it appears from the con- text that a different meaning is intended, the following words shall have the meaning attached to them by this section. (a) The word "street" shall mean and in- clude any street, alley, avenue, lane, public place or highway within the city limits of the City of Fort Worth. (b) The words "motor bust" shall mean and include any automobile, truck or trackless motor vehicle, engaged in the business of carrying pass- engers for hire within the city limits of the City of Fort Worth, over, along, upon or across any street thereof, as herein defined, which is held out or announced by sign, voice, writing, device or advertisement, to operate or run, or which is 1 ?t intended to be operated or run over any particu- lar street or route, or to any particular or designated point, or between particular points, or to or within any designated territory, dis- trick or zone, or from any point within the city limits of the Citv of Font Worth, to any point, town, zone, territory, or place without said city or from any town, city, point, place, zone or territory without said city, to any point, place, territory or zone within said City of Fort Worth. Any person operating an automobile, au- tomobile truck, or trackless motor vehicle on the donation plan, or any person operating such a vehicle who shall receive money, or anything of value from any person transported by him, or any person operating such a vehicle who shall. keep or carry on or about the same any box or receptacle into which any person carried by such operator of any such motor vehicle can or may donate or deposit any money, or anything of value, or keep use or put in operation any other or similar scheme, device or subterfuge, design- ed to receive money or anything of value from any person carried on any such motor vehicle shall, be held to be "carrying passengers for hire" within the meaning of this subdivision of this section. (c) The word "person" shall include both singular and plural, and shall mean and embrace any person, firm, corporation., association. partnership, or society. SEC. II. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, or persons firm, corporation, as- sociation, partnership, or society to run or op- erate or cause to be run or operated any motor bus, as such vehicle is defined in this ordinance, on, along, upon or over any of the following streets and portions of streets in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, viz: (a Main Street between Front Street and Weatherford Street. (b) Houston Street between Weatherford and. Thirteenth Streets. (c) Commerce Street between Front Street and Weatherford Street. (d) Commerce Street between Front Street and Weatherford Street. (e) Jones Street between Front Street and Weatherford Street, (f Throckmorton Street between Weather- ford and hirteenth Streets. (g) Front Street and the highway or street now designated as Handley Boulevard and Dallas Pike, forming a continuation of Front Street from the west line of Main Street eastward to the City • limits of the City of Fort Worth. , (h) East. Fourth Street and the h i f away forming a continuation thereof from Commerce Street eastward across the East Fourth Street bridge over Trinity River to Sylvania Avenues (i) Any and every street intersecting Throckmort on and Houston Streets from. Throck- morton to Houston Streets, except Second Street. (j) Any and every street intersecting Main, Commerce, Calhoun and Jones Streets, be- tween Weatherford and Front Streets from Main Street to Jones Street in said City of Fort 'forth, Except Second Street. SEC. III: Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceed- ing $200.00. SEC. IV: Each and every day's violation of this ordinance shall constitute a separate of- fense. SEC. V: The present crowded and congest- ed condition of the traffic on the streets and portions of streets hereinbefore mentioned, and the constantly increasing number of automobiles and other vehicles using said streets, and portions of streets, hereinbefore named, create a dangerous condition and menace to life and property, there- y by making it imperatively necessary to adopt and enforce the regulations herein prescribed; and this ordinance is, and is hereby declared to be, an emergency measure necessary in the ordinary course of the city's affairs, and a measure nec. essary for the immediate preservation of the pub. lie peace, health and safety of the citizens of the City of Fort Worth, and shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and five day's publication, as required by law. SEG. VI: The holding or adjudication of any section, or subdivision of any section, or any part of any subdivision of a section of this ordinance to be invalid, shall not affect the, valid- ity of any other section, or part of a sbudivision of a section thereof, but all other sections, sub- divisions of sections and parts of subdivisions of sections, shall. be and remain in full force and effect. SEC. VII: This ordinance is hereby declar- ed to be cumulative of all of the provisions of ordinances No. 448, No. 470, No. 547 and No. 5860 regulating the operation of motor busses upon and along the streets of the City of Fort Worth, and shall not be held to repeal any of the provisions of any such ordinances, except in those instances k _46 where such ordinances are in direct conflict with the express provisions of this ordinance. SEC. VIII: This ordinance shall become effective as to all streets and portions of streets herein provided, from and after its passage and five day's publication as provided by law. s is C. S. Snow, City Secretary, of the City of Fort Worth, Texas do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordi- nance No. 936 duly presented, passed arid, adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort Forth, Texas held in the chamber council in the City Hall at a regular session, July 24th, 1923. C. S. SNOOP, City Secretary. By mss t. City Secretary.