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ORDINANCE NO.•&-�-�-.
An Ordinance regulating automobiles and what is
known as service cars operating on the streets of Fort Worth
and engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire,
providing for a license fee or police tax for service cars
and automobiles engaged in t#a business of carrying passengers
for hire; prohibiting the standing or parking of service oars
or automobiles engaged in the business of carrying passen are
for hire, on cer:tai,&�,streets in the Cit_. of Fort 1rorth ri
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WHEREAS, under existing conditions in the City of
Fort Worth, the parking of service cars' and automobiles at
points on Main and Houston Streets, North Hain Street and Ex-
change Avenue, by the owners of such service cars and auto-
mobiles#'has become so annoying and continuous as to constitute
an occupation of said streets and a nuisance, and
WHEREAS; THE OUnding of service cars and automobiles
used in the carrying of passengers for hire, on said streets,
has become an obstruetio,4 to said etregts,in view of the con-
gested condition of travel and traffic on said streets, and
WHEREAS, under the teams of Section 17, dhapter 8
ti of the charter of the City of Fort Worth, the Board of Commis-
sioners are specially authorized to prescribe license fees or
police taxes necessary and proper to enable the city to exer-
cise proper police surveillance over persons, firms or corp-
orations or calling subject to same, and
WHEREAS, under the state law, municipal corporations
are authorized to prescribe license fees on service cars and
automobiles engaged in the'" CNbOV.of rjing p sengers
for hire, and
WHEREAS, aX great number of service oars and W omobiles
engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, and
the steady and continual increase of the number thereof, rend-
ers it necessary for a police tax for proper surveillunos of
same, now therefore
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMAISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH.
SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm or corporation to operate or main-
tain what is known as service cars or automobiles on the
streets of Fort Worth, for the purpose of carrying and
transporting passengers I from place to-place
)within the City
of Fort Worth for hire, without first having obtained and
paying for a license fee or police tax for each service
car or automobile so engaged, as hereafter set out.
SECTION 2. There is hereby fixed a liQonse fee or
police tax, which shall be eolleot6d from any person or per-
sons, firm or corporation operating service cars or auto-
mobiles engaged in the business of carrying or transporting
passengers for hire, on the streets of the City of Fort Worth,
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in the sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)�, for each service
,_� sutom�bigagad in said business on the streets of
the City of Fort Worth.
SECTION 3. The license fee or police tax herein
provided for Imay be transferred to the purchaser upon the
sale of any service car or automobile being made; but the
assessor and collector shall be notified of such sale or
transfer, within five days after such sale or transfer be-
ing made, or the license fee will be absolutely farfatted.
SECTIO:: 4. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm or corporation to park or stand or
detain any service car or automobile used or operated on
the streets of the City of Fort Worth, for the purpose of
carrying or transporting passengers for hire, while waiting
for or soliciting employment on any of the following described
streets, to wit:
Main street from First Street to the South line of
Front Street.
Houston street .from Belknap street to the South line
of Front Street.
3.
North Main Street from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-
fifth Street.
East Exshange Avenue from Main Street to the City
limits.
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West Exchange Avenue from North Main Street 1tm
rGr Avenue.
SECTION 5. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person, or persons, firm or corporation to park, stand or
detain any service car or automobile used or operated on the
streets of the City of Fort Worth, for the purpose of carrying
or transporting passengers for hire, while waiting for or
soliciting employmen�in front of, or on the side of the Texas
and Pacific Railway Union Station ,
except as herein provided.
(a) Service cars and automobiles engaged in the business of
carrying and transporting passengers for hire, may occupy a
stand along the WAM curb fronting the Texas and Pacific Rail-
way Union Station from a point opposite the South side of the
West entrance to said station and extending to-�the curb line
at the South west corner of the block.
SECTION 6. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm or corporation to park Isitand or detain
any service car or automobile, used or operated on the streets
of the City of Fort Worth, for the purpose of carrying pass-
engers for hire, while waiting for or soliciting employment
on the vacant space or square west of the Texas and Pacific
Railway Union Station in the center og which stands the Al
Haynes Triangle and monument, except along the South curb of
the triangle eneloong the Al Hayn'6s monument.
SECTION 7/ It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm or corporation to parlq/stand\,dr
detain any derviee oar or automobile, opertaing or used on
the streets of the City of Fort �,orth, for the purpose of
carrying or transporting passengers for hire, while waiting
for or soliciting employmentcon Jones Street West of the
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Santa Fe Railway Union Station, except as herein provided.
(a) Service cars and automobiles used or operated for he
purpose of carrying or transporting passengers for hire,
may occupy a space along the curb line West of the Santa
Fe Railway Union Station from a point South o the West
entrance to said station and extending ft the curb line along
the East, side of said Anes Street, to the North ourb line
of Fifteenth Street.
(b) Service cars and automobiles engaged in the business
of carrying and transporting passengers for hire, may
occupy a stand along the East side of Jones Street from the
South curb line of Fifteenth Street to the drive way of the
Yells FVgo Express Company.
�- SECTION &. All service care and aut4iles in the
occupation of the stands herein designated, shall stand with
the side of the cars parallel with the curb.
SECTION,a. Any person cr persons, firm or corporation
_ violating aay`cf the provisions of this ordinance shall be-
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Dollars 05.00),
and not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) , and each
violation thereof shall be and is hereby declared to be a
distinct and separate offense and punishable as such.
SECTION 10. All ordinances or parts of Ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 11. This ordinance is hereby declared to
' be cumulative 6 all other ordinances regulating traffic
upon the streets of Fort Worth, except were the same are
In conflict with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION la. Should any section or part of section
of this ordinance be declared invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision or judgment shall
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not affect the remaining sections or parts of sections
of this ordinance, which shall continue to be in full
force and effect.
SECTION 13. This ordinance shall take affect
and be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and publication as required by law.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance
was duly presented and adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, at a regular session of
said Beard held October 29th, A. 19 .
City eor
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