HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 944ORDTNL•~NCI'i 1d 0.9A•4.
An Ordinance providing for the separation of" white and negro p:assangers o~n they street cars of
the city of F°art Worth.
3R IT' ORDl~IIJ.F..D BY TFLE CITY COTINCIIx OF `I'i-II; CITY OF FORT WOR'.Z'R:
See'tion 1. That every street railway eompan~r,: Ic~sse:e:,: manago:r, receiver ar• awne:r thareu:f
operating street• cars in the city o:P Fart Wortim ens carriers af' ive.ssenge:rs• fmr hire, shall
rro~vide and raquiro that all white passengers boarding t~:eir.• cars four transp:ortatian o:r~ passage
3ha11 te~ke scats i.n the: Forward or f'ront' end ofi the• car Y'il:ling th.e car• from the grant end,
end all negra~pass~ng~rs boarding their cars for transportation ar passage shall tAke seats in
G:he: back or rear end of the car filling the ear Pram the back o.~r rear end:
Section 2. The term "'ne.gro° as defined herein includes every p~'son of l~.friean decent as
the same: is de•fine:" by the statutes o:f the State of texas, azld all parsons not, included in the:
definition of negro a.s aboue defined shall be deemed white persons within the meaning of this
ordinance.
5eation 3. Any street railway company, lessee, manager, receiver or owner thereof which
shall fail to provide: anti require that all white passengers desiring seats shall take seats
and fi.11 the car from the front and as herein provided, or which shall fail ta~ provide and
require that all negro passengers desiring seats shall take ssat•s and fill the car as herein
provided from the• back or rear end, shall be: liable for each and every such (allure t•o a
penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars:•to be recovered by the
city o.~f Fort Worth in any court having competent ~urisdietion, and 9.ca,Sh ('allure to comply with
the provisions of this section on any street car operated in the citJ of i?ort Worth shall be
deemed a•separate offense. - •
Section 4. Th:e: conductors on all street car's in the City of Fort Worth shall have authority
to rafu.se: any passenger o~r• parson the right 'to sit rnr stand in any street car in the city o:f
Fort. Worth unless such passengex or. person shall comply with the provisions of this a•rdinanee,
and such conductors shall have the right also t•o remove: from any street car any passenger who ~
doss not comply with the provisions o:f this ordinance.
Section 5. If any passenger upon any street car in the city of Fort Vtorth eftar having baEn:
f'orbiddan t_o do so by the conductor in charge of eaid car, shall attempt to ride an the said
'strae; car in any place other than the place prointed out to such passenger and other than a
proper plaa,ce .for him to ride uzi~.er ~G1,.8 provisions: of this ordinance, he: sha1:1 be guilty. of a
misdemeanor and shall be fined upon conviction not less than five dollars nor more than
twenty-five dollars.
Sec+'tion 6. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be construed so as to prohibit, nurses
from riding in the same end of the c:a.r with their employers, even though of different raca,• and
shall not prohibit officers from riding with prisoners in their charge in the same end of the
car, oven though they be of different race.
Section 7. The p revisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any excursion car or~special
car rizn strictly as such for the oxe~lusive benefit of either rasa, but in all such cases said
ea.rs• shall be .plainly marked "Excursion car" or 11 Special Car".
Section S. This ordinance shall take affect and b•e in force immediately after its passage
and publication as required by law.
Filed October 2nd 1905. .
Jno T.Montgomery, City Secretary.
Passed under suspension of rules, October 2nd 1905.
Jno T.Montgomery, City Secretary.
Recorded in Ordinance ?3ook E, page 1.35, October 6th 1805.
Jno T.Montgomery, City Secretary,
This ordinance not having been approved nor disapproved by the Mayor within three days after
its passage es required by the charter, takes effect the same as if approved.
Jno T.Montgomery, Gity Secretary.