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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORTS FOR
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HIRE; PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES; CITY V�C111"w1
PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR
REGULATIONS IN THE OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORTS `f. WORTH, EX
FOR HIRE; PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION OF LICENSES; PRO-
VIDING FOR APPEAL FROM THE REFUSAL TO GRANT ON THE
REVOCATION OF A LICENSE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION I.
Motor Vehicle Escorts for Hire
§ 1 Definitions
§ 2 License Certificate - Required
§ 3 License - Minimum Age
§ 4 Application for License Certificate - Information Required
§ 5 Application for License Certificate - Investigation
§ 6 Application for License Certificate - Action by City
Manager; Issuance of License
§ 7 Application for License Certificate - Factors to be
considered by City Manager
§ 8 Appeal from Action of City Manager
§ 9 Same - Insurance Prerequisite to Issuance
§ 10 Same - Terms not to exceed one year; Issuance notto
create vested rights.
§ 11 Reasonable charges for services
§ 12 Fee; Transferability
§ 13 Posting and Surrender of License Certificate
§ 14 Functions, powers and duties of police department
§ 15 Revocation; Appeal; Notice Required
§ 16 Chauffeur's License - Requirements; Application; Contents
of Application; Character Affidavits-
§ 17 Chauffeur's License - Application Subject to Approval of
City Manager; Hearing; Fingerprints and Photograph of
Applicant; a Prerequisite to Issuance
§ 18 Issuance; Fee; Nontransferable; Change of Employment
§ 19 Chauffeur's License - To be carried on Person
20 City Chauffeur's License Revocation, Appeal, Cause
for revocation
21 Employment of qualified operators the responsibility
of owner
22 Police officers may furnish excorts
§ 23 Escorts for funeral cortege not required
24 Motor vehicles used in escort service - requirements
25 Funeral escort guides - Uniform and equipment requirements
26 Advertisements - limitations
§ 27 Motor vehicle guides - limitations of duties
28 Funeral escorts - Authority to direct procession
29 Funeral processions
30 Civil immunities
21 Severability
Subsection 1 - Definitions
For the purpose of this ordinanc:ethe following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
PRIVATE MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORT AGENCY - Any person, firm, corpora-
tion or partnership engaged in the business of furnishing private motor
vehicle escorts for hire which employs one or more persons as employees,
assistants, clerks or motor vehicle escort guides.
OFFICIAL POLICE OFFICER'S BADGE - A badge of the size, type and
design as approved for the use of regular police officers.
MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORT GUIDE - Any person licensed to engage in
the business of furnishing a private motor vehicle escort for hire who
personally escorts or guides any funeral cortege or overwidth, overlength
or overheight motor vehicle or any person employed by another person, firm,
partnership or corporation licensed to engage in the business of furnishing
private motor vehicle escort service for hire.
Subsection 2 - License Certificate - Required
No person shall engage in the business of furnishing a private motor
vehicle escort for hire within the City of Fort Worth without first having
obtained a license certificate therefor; provided, that persons engaged in
such business who are employed by a duly licensed private motor vehicle
escort agency shall not be required to be individually licensed.
Subsection 3 - License - Minimum Age.
Wo license certificate to engage in the business of furnishing
private motor vehicle escorts shall be issued to any person under twenty-
one years of age, nor shall any person under twenty-one years of age be
employed as an escort guide by any person, firm, partnership or corpora-
tion licensed to engage in the business of furnishing motor vehicle escort
service for hire.
Subsection 4 - Application for License Certificate - Information Required.
Any person, firm, corporation or partnership intending to conduct
a private motor vehicle escort agency or business or furnish a private motor
vehicle escort in the City of Fort Worth, shall file with the Chief of
Police a written application duly signed and verified as follows:
If the applicant is a person, the application shall be signed
and verified by such person, and if the applicant is a partnership the
application shall be signed by each partner and if the applicant is a
corporation, the application shall be signed by the chief executive officer
of said corporation. The application shall state the full name, age and
residence of the licensee; and shall specify the trade name and the address
or location from which the business or agency will operate and for which
the license certificate is desired, and such further facts as may be requited
by the chief of police to show the good character, competency, and integrity
of each person so signing the application.
Subsection 5 - Application for License Certificate - Investigation
Upon filing an application for a license certificate to engage in
the business of conducting a private motor vehicle escort agency or
furnishing private motor vehicle escorts,- the chief of police shall make or
cause to be made such investigation as he may deem necessary to determine
the fitness of the applicant for a license. Then the chief of police
shall within ten days forward the application with his recommendations
to the City Manager.
Subsection 6 - Application for License Certificates - Action by the
City Manager; Issuance of License
The City Manager shall have authority to grant a license cer-
tificate to engage in the business of conducting private motor vehicle
escorts without further investigation or to cause further investigation
to be made before granting such license or disapproving the application.
Upon the granting of such license by the City Manager, it shall be the
duty of the applicant to present the approved application to the assessor
and collector of taxes of the City of Fort Worth and upon the payment of
the proper license fee the assessor and collector of taxes shall accordingly
issue the proper license certificate on a form to be prescribed by the
assessor and collector of taxes.
Subsection 7 - Application for License Certificate - Factors to be
considered by City Manager.
In approving or disapproving any license certificate to engage
in the business of conducting private motor vehicle escorts, the City
Manager shall consider the following factors:
(a) Whether the applicant has been convicted of a felony,
or on renewal of license, for the violation of any of the provisions of
this chapter, during the year next preceding the filing of this application.
(b) Whether the applicant is of good moral character and has a
reputation for being a peaceable law abiding citizen.
(c) Such other lawful matters be considered pertinent and
proper in arriving at a fair and lawful consideration with respect to
such application for a license.
Subsection 8 - Appeal from Action of City Manager.
In the event the City Manager shall refuse to grant a license to
any applicant, the action of the City Manager shall be final unless the
applicant shall, within ten days after the refusal to grant such license,
file a written appeal with the City Secretary, addressed to the City Council,
requesting a hearing by the council upon the question as to whether or not
his application shall be granted. In the event such appeal is filed, the
City Manager shall provide the council with a record of all proceedings there-
tofore had with reference to the application in question, including the written
application, together with the action of the City Manager and the reasons
for such action. The City Council shall, wtthin thirty days, grant a hearing
thereon to determine the correctness of the action of the City Manager, at
which hearing the council may make such investigation as it may see fit,
whether or not all the pertinent facts appear in the application. It shall
be discretionary with the City Council as to whether or not a license shall
be granted and such action as the council may take thereon shall be final
and conclusive.
Subsection 9 - Same - Insurance prerequisite to issuance.
Before a license certificate shall be issued to any owner or opera-
for of any private motor vehicle escort agency as defined herein, or before
the renewal of such license certificate shall be granted, the holder of such
license certificate shall be required to file with the City Secretary and
thereafter kept in full force and effect, a standard policy of public lia-
bility and property damage insurance, to be executed by an insurance company
duly and legally authorized to do business in the state and performable in
the county, and to be approved by the City Manager of the City, insuring the
general public against any loss or damage that may result to any person or
property from the operation of such motor vehicle escort service.
The above liability and property damage insurance policy shall be
noncancellable and shall insure each vehicle operated by such a motor vehicle
escort agency licensed hereunder and shall have limits of not less than
('10, °L'CL _ :r+ for injury to one person, �.m� 4"°) r
for injuries to two or more persons resulting from any one accident,
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for damage to property, and such insurance
shall be for the protection of passengers riding in a funeral being escorted,
and for the public, caused by the ne,gligence of a private motor vehicle
escort agency, its servants, agents, or employees, and shall not cover
personal injuries sustained by th. 9u7,rvjaats, agents or employees of such
motor vehicle escort agency. Such policy of insurance shall be for a
period of one (1) year and the date.of evch policy shall coincide with
the date of the license issued he:re dpr and shall contain a provision
for a continuing liability thereon up to the full amount thereof, not-
withstanding any recovery therenLa.
In the event that the City Martager of the City of Fort Worth
shall determine, after a hearii4 d%Ay had, amd after ten (10) days
notice is given to licensee that any standard policy of insurance so
filed by any licensee has become Impaired so as to afford less protection
to the public than when originally filed, be shall require a new or an
additional policy so as to bring tTae proteotic�n of such insurance to its
original amount, and the licensee shall., within ten days after receiving
written notice of such rsT,Aremnt, prorvide the required new or additional
policy, failing which, the license of tlae licensee shall automatically
terminate.
Subsection 10 - Same - Terms not to exs�aed one year; Issuance not to
create vested Z_15ttll.
No license granted tander the terms of this article shall extend
for a period in excess of one year. Ylo such license shall be deemed to
grant a vested or property right, bu't auch license shall remain subject
to the terms and provisions of this ahapter and subject to such future
regulations as shall be promulgated by the 01ty Council by ordinance and
any investment made by a licensee shall be made subject to this ordinance.
Subsection 11 - Reasonable charges for services.
Any person, firm or corporativa licensed hereunder shall make no
more than reasonable charges for the services rendered by such person,firm
or corporation.
Subsection 12 - Fee; Transferability.
The fee for any licenses granted hereunder to a private motor
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vehicle escort agency shall be the stun of - per
annum, which sum shall be paid before such license certificate is issued.
Such license certificate shall not be transferable from the person or
corporation to whom it is issued to another person or corporation.
Subsection 13 - Posting and Surrender of License Certificate.
Immediately upon the receipt of the license certificate issued
by the city, the licensee named therein shall cause such license certi-
ficate to be posted and at all times displayed in a conspicuous place in
the office or location given as the business address in the application.
Such license certificate shall at all reasonable times be subject to in-
spection by the chief of police or an authorized representative of the
police department. No person holding such license certificate shall post
such certificate or permit such certificate to be posted upon premises
other than those described therein or to which it has been transferred
purt;uant to the provisions of1diis article or knowingly alter, deface or
destroy such license certificate. Every license certificate shall be
surrendered to the chief of police within seventy-two hours after its
terms shall have expired or after notice in writing to the holder that such
license bas been revoked. Failure to comply with any provisions of this
section shall be deemed sufficient cause for the revocation of the license.
Subsection 14 - Functions, powers and duties of police department.
With regard to all applicants for a license to conduct a private
motor vehicle escort agency or furnish private motor vehicle escorts, the
police department shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
(a) To investigate qualifications for fitness of all appli-
cants,
(b) To investigate and aid in the prosecution of all viola-
tions of this chapter and cooperate in the prosecution of offenders before
any court having jurisdiction to hear same.
(c) To inspect and approve or disapprove the equipment and uni-
forms worn by funeral escort officers;
(d) To inspect and approve or disapprove motor vehicle equip-
ment used in making escorts.
Subsection 15 - Revocation; Areal; Notice Required.
If a private motor vehicle escort agency licensed under the pro-
visions of this ordinance is not being conducted in accordance with the laws
of the state or this ordinance, or is being conducted in violation of the laws of
the state or this ordinance or that an investigation reveals that the licensee
falsified his application, the City Manager may at any time give notice in
writing to the operator, licensee manager or other person in control of the
operation and maintenance of such private motor vehicle escort agency that
the permit or license issued for the operation and maintenance of such pri-
vate motor vehicle escort agency has been revoked and cancelled. The notice
of revocation and cancellation shall become a final revocation and cancella-
tion after the expiration of ten days from the date of the service of same
upon the operator, licensee, manager or other person in charge, unless on
or before the expiration of such ten days the licensee, operator, manager
or other person in charge shall file with the City Secretary a written
appeal addressed to the City Council in which it is requested that the
council grant him a hearing upon the question whether or not the permit or
license shall be cancelled and revoked. Such appeal, if made and filed as
prescribed in this section, shall operate a stay or postponement of the re-
vocation and cancellation of the permit issued, until such time as the City
Council shall grant a hearing and make a final adjudication. Such hearing
shall be held within the thirty days after the date of the filing of such
appeal, and such action and judgment of the council, after hearing all the
evidence and facts, shall be final and conclusive as to all parties.
Subsection 16 - Chauffeur's License - Requirements; Application; Contents
of Application; Character Affidavits.
No person shall engage in the business of furnishing private motor
vehicle escorts for hire upon the streets of the City unless such person
operating such vehicle for hire shall have a valid chauffeur's license
issued by the City. It shall be the duty of each operator of a motor-
cycle for hire to apply to the City Manager for a chauffeur's license
upon blanks to be furnished by the City Secretary, giving the name, age,
present address, address and place of employment during the pasttwo years,
with the reasons for leaving, and whether or not the applicant has been
convicted of a felony or if he has a police record. Such applicant shall
likewise attach to his application for a chauffeur's license affidavits
from two reputable citizens attesting to the character of the applicant.
Such applicant shall further possess and show a valid Texas Motor Vehicle
Operator's License. No City chauffeur's license shall be issued to any
person under age twenty-one.
Subsection 17 - Chauffeur's License - Application subject to approval of
City Manager; hearing; fingerprints and photograph of
applicant a prerequisite to issuance.
The City Manager is hereby authorized and directed, in considering
the application for a city chauffeur's license as provided by the preceding
section, to make such investigation as he may deem necessary to determine
the fitness of the applicant for a license and if, in the City Manager's
opinion, such applicant is unfit to operate a vehicle for hire on the streets
of the City, it shall be the duty of the City Manager to refuse such license;
provided, that upon refusal of the City Manager to approve such application,
the applicant, may, within ten days thereafter, appeal to the governing
body which shall, within thirty days thereafter accord to such applicant a
hearing as to whether or not said license shall be granted. No chauffeur's
license shall be issued to any driver of a vehicle operated for hire until
the police department shall have taken fingerprints and received from the
applicant a photograph of himself.
Subsection 1$ - Issuance; Fee; Nontransferable; Change of Employment.
After the application for a chauffeur's license has been granted
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, it shall be the duty of
the assessor and collector of taxes to issue a chauffeur's license to such
applies f r which a fee of
DollaroAshall be charged, which license shall run for a period of one year
from date of issuance. The license, when issued, shall not be transferable;
however, it shall be lawful for the holder of such license to use the same
license if he changes employment from one operator or owner of a motor
vehicle escort agency for hire to another.
Subsection 19 - Chauffeur's License - To be carried on person.
It shall be the duty of any operator engaged in furnishing escort
service for hire to have his city chauffeur's license on or about his person
and shall be required to show same to any city police officer upon demand.
Subsection 20 - City chauffeur's license - Revocation, appeal, cause for
revocation.
The City Manager upon recommendation of the chief of police shall
have the authority to revoke for cause any city chauffeur's license issued
under the terms of this ordirmmeeprovided, however, that the licensee may
within ten days thereafter appeal to the City Council, which shall within
thirty days thereafter accord to such licensee a hearing as to whether or
not such license should be reinstated or revoked and the decision of the
council in such instance shall be final.
The following acts, among others by the licensee, are declared to
be cause for revocation but such enumeration shall not be deemed to be ex-
clusive, vii:
(a) Licensee convicted of a felony or driving while under
the influence of alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs.
(b) Flagrant violations of the state and/or City Traffic Code.
(c) Unauthorized use of red lights.
(d) Exercising or attempting to exercise police powers not
granted by this ordinance.
(e) Addition of equipment to uniform or motorcycle prohibited
by this ordinance or other ordinances of the City of Fort
Worth or the statutes of the State of Texas are not
authorized by the chief of police.
(f) Falsifying an application for such chauffeur's license.
Subsection 21 - Employment of qualified operators the responsibility
of owner.
The owner of any private motor vehicle escort agency shall employ
as escort guides only those persons who are physically and mentally fit
and able to operate a motorcycle for hire and who are twenty-one years of
age or over. It shall be the sole responsibility and duty of such private
motor vehicle escort agency to select competent operators for such motor
vehicles which would be operated pursuant to this ordinance. No owner of
such escort agency shall employ any person as a motor vehicle escort guide
until such person has obtained a valid Texas Operators License and City
Chauffeur's License.
Subsection 22 - Police officers may furnish escorts.
Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be construed to require
licensing of or to prohibit regularly employed officers or deputies of the
Texas Department of Public Safety, Tarrant County Sheriff or Fort Worth
Police Department from escorting funeral corteges or oversided, overlength,
or overwidth vehicles upon the streets and roadways of the City of Fort
Worth when assigned as an official duty by their respective departments.
Subsection 23 - Escorts for funeral cortege not required.
Nothing contained in this ordinance,shall be construed as requiring
funeral directors or any other persons conducting funerals to contract, hire
or employ any private motor vehicle escort service to guide or escort any
funeral cortege in the City of Fort Worth.
Subsection 24 - Motor vehicles used in escort service - requirements.
A funeral escort guide while actively engaged in furnishing escort
must use either a two wheel or three wheel motorcycle which is in good
condition and which is equipped with two lamps thereon that display a red
light visible from directly in front of the center thereof. These lamps
shall be in addition to those required by state law. It shall be unlawful
for the vehicles mentioned in this section to be equipped with a siren.
Decals, placards, signs, and insignias which resemble official police officers'
badges or which bear the words "police", "official", or "officer" shall
not be used in any manner on such motorcycle nor shall such motorcycles be
painted a color resembling the color of motorcycles used by the Fort Worth
Police Department. All mt6rized equipment to be used for escort service
must be inspected prior to its use at a time and place designated by the
chief of police. No additional equipment may be added after such motorcycle
inspection unless the motorcycle is reinspected and approved before use.
Any motor vehicle used in performing such escort service shall be subject
to inspection at any time by the chief of police or his authorized repre-
sentative.
Subsection 25 - Funeral Escort guides - uniform and equipment requirements.
No funeral escort guide shall wear, while acting as such, any uni-
form other than one approved by the chief of police, provided, however,
that such uniform must not resemble in pattern, design, or color that pre-
scribed for the regular police officers of this city. Funeral escort guides
may wear a badge and cap wreath if they so desire provided such badge or
wreath does not resemble the official police officer's badge or bear the
words "police" or "officer". Non-commissioned officers' stripes or com-
missioned officers' bars or insignia denoting a rank shall not be worn on
such uniform. Funeral escort guides shall not wear a holster, handcuff
case, or cartridge case in conjunction with their uniform belt. A whistle
and/or flash light baton may be used at the discretion of the escort guide.
No escort guide shall have on or about his person or on or about his escort vehicle
any offensive or defensive weapon declared to be unlawful by the statutes of
the State of Texas, provided, however, that peace officers of City and county
of Tarrant and the State of Texas, who may be licensed as escort guides may
carry authorized weapons concealed on or about their person or escort vehicle
while actively engaged as a motor vehicle escort guide.
Subsection 26 - Advertisements - Limitations.
No person engaged in the business of furnishing private motor vehicle
escorts for hire or owner or employee of a private motor vehicle escort agency
shall distribute, present, or give away any cards, hand bills, or printed
matter of any kind which bear the words "police", "official", or "officer"
in conjunction with advertising an escort service. Nor shall any adver-
tisement state, imply, or falsely misrepresent that a private motor vehicle
escort service is required by the police department, City of Fort Worth or
by any of its ordinances.
Subsection 27 - Motor vehicle guides - Limitations of duties.
A motor vehicle escort guide shall not engage in any escort
service other than that of escorting a funeral procession, consisting of
the hearse and cortege from the place of service to the place of interment.
A motor vehicle escort guide may escort overheight, overlength, or over-
width vehicles or loads as defined in the State Traffic Code but only
after application for each individual escort has been made to the chief of
police who shall have the authority to approve or disapprove the escort and
if approval is granted such approval shall designate the route and time to
be upon such route.
Subsection 28 - Funeral escorts - Authority to direct procession.
Motor escort guides who have been duly licensed by the City of
Fort Worth are authorized to lead funeral processions within the city when
such procession has been properly identified as such by the display of a
pennant upon the outside of the lead vehicle and the hearse and all other
vehicles shall have their headlights turned on. All motor vehicles in a
funeral procession which have been properly designated shall have the right-
of-way over all other vehicles, except fire apparatus, ambulances, and
police vehicles, at any roadway intersection within the City and such proces-
sion may be escorted through stop signs or signalized intersections without
stopping, but the drivers of such motor vehicles shall exercise due regard
for the safety of all approaching vehicles and funeral processions being
escorted hereunder shall be subject at all times to the control of police
officers of the City of Fort Worth, provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to overheight, overlength or overwidth vehicles or loads
as defined in the State Traffic Code nor to the operation of such vehicles
in the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth as such vehicles shall at
all times be subject to the traffic laws of the City of Fort Worth.
Subsection 29 - Funeral Processions.
Funeral processions will travel as closely to the right hand
edge of the roadway as practical and at a safe and prudent speed. No
funeral procession shall enter or travel upon any roadway, expressway or
freeway which has a minimum posted speed limit. Funeral Escort Guides
shall not stop traffic approaching from the opposite direction or force
or direct such traffic to move off the roadway, however, oncoming traffic
may be stopped at intersections and other places to assist the cortege in
making left turns.
Subsection 30 - Civil Immunities.
No funeral escort guide shall, by virtue of any license as such
heretofore or hereafter issued under this ordinance.or pursuant to any other
law or ordinance be deemed to be an officer, agent, employee or representa-
tive of the City of Fort Worth while engaging in any activity of any
character whatsoever undertaken for private hire, profit or reward or while
performing any act done in the course of his own business or affairs or
while performing any act done or undertaken in connection with or in
furtherance of, any private employment, business or undertaking for which
such funeral escort guide is hired or engaged, nor shall any such license
be construed to confer upon the holders any privilege or immunity not
expressly granted by this ordinance other than the authority to make such
arrests as granted any other private citizen.
Subsection 31 - Severability.
If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or pro-
vision of this ordinanueshall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional,
the same shall not affect the validity of this crdinance-as a whole or any
part or provision thereof other than parts so decided to be invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION V.
The City Secretary is hereby directed to publish this ordinance in
pamphlet form for general distribution among the public and this ordinance,
as so published in pamphlet form, shall be admissible in evidence as pro-
vided in Section 3, Chapter XXVI, of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
/s/ S-G. Johndroe, Jr-
City Attorney
SECTION 11.
Penalty
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Any person, firm or corporation or others violating any pro-
vision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars
($200.00); provided, however, that when the offense is one for which the
penalty is fixed by state law, the penalty for such offense shall be the
same as fixed by state law. Emch day that the violation is conducted
shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION" III.
The fact that due to the large number of funerals held in the
City of Fort Worth annually places an unnsual burden on the Police
Department of the City of Fort Worth to escort such funeral processions
for safety purposes necessitates 1hs'he creation of an agency to lighten
the burden of the Police Department and creates an urgency and emergency
in the preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general wel-
fare and requires that this ordinance shall take effect immediately from
and after its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained.
SECTION' IV.
All of the regulations provided in this ordinance are hereby de-
clared to be governmental and for the benefit of the general public. Any
member of the City Council, any City Official or employee charged with the
enforcement of this ordinance, acting for the City of Fort Worth in the
discharge of his duties, shall not thereby render himself personally liable,
and he is hereby relieved from all Personal liability for any damage that
may accrue to persons or propert�(p, as a result of any act required or permitted
in the discharge of his duties. Any suit brought against any such indivi-
dual or employee because of such act performed by him in the enforcement of
any provision of this ordinance shall be defended by the Department of law
until the final adjudication of the proceedings.
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City of .Fort Worth, Texas
Mayor and Council Communi
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3-4-63 G-434 Escorts for funeral Procession -
The City Council, at the Council Meeting of February 25, 1963, approved Alterna-
tive, Three of M C G-426; which provides for the City to permit by ordinance for
funeral escort services to be performed by private concerns upon payment of a
license fee, compliance with regulations established, and provision of liability
and property damage insurance.
As requested by the Council recommendations concerning the unt'of the license
fee, the minimum limits of liability and property damage insurance, and the fee"
for each license issued to vehicle operators employed by the escort finm are as
,follows
1 a section 9, - Jnsurance j2jeregulsite, to issuance.
It is recommended that the minizum limits of liability and proper damage
insurance be not less than $1t1Cl,C0U for injury to one person, $1100 0,00 for
injuries to two or more persons resulting from any one-accident, and' $50,000
for damage to property,
Although the minimum insurance limits require , by some other cities that '
license private escort service is $50,000, $100,000 and $25,000, the addi-
tional ,
premium for the -increased insurance : its as recommended is insigao;'
nifica�nt as compared to the substantitV,, increase in coverage.
2 Subsection 12 - Fee Trans ferabi it
It is recommended that the license fee paid to the City for operation of
private escort concerns be $50 per year.
3. baect on J - ssuanee E e
An annual license fee for individual operators of escort vehicles of $1 is
recommended.
Council action on these items, and final action on the ordinance as a whole, is
requested,.
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