HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2303 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2173, PASSED AND
ADOPTED AUGUST 42 1943, WHICH IS AN ORDINANCE AMEND-
ING ORDINANCE NO. 1915, PASSED AND ADOKED MAY 200
1936, REGULATING THE OPERATION OF AMBULANCES, BY ADD-
ING SECTIONS IV(d) AND IV(e) TO SAID ORDINANCE; PRO-
HIBITING ANY PERSON FROM MAKING AN EMERGENCY CALL PITH
AN AMBULANCE UNLESS SUCH PERSON HAS BEEN SUMMONED TO
DO SO IN PERSON OR BY A TELEPHONE CALL; DEFINING TERMS;
PRESCRIBING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
SE IT ORDAINED BY TIM CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Ordinance No. 2173 be amended by adding thereto Sections
IV(d) and IV(e), and, after being so amended, shall read as follows:
SECTION IV(d)
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate
an ambulance on any of the streets of the City of Fort
North for the purpose of making an emergency call unless
said person has been summoned to do so either by someone
in person or by a call over the telephone.
SECTION IV(e)
The term "emergency call" as used in this ordinance
shall be construed to mean any or all requests for ambu-
lance service which are made under circumstances Which
are or have been represented to be such circumstances as
require ambulance service immediately.
SECTION 2,
This ordinance shall be declared to be cumulative of all other or-
dinances of the City of Fort North regulating traffic, and shall not be
construed to repeal the provisions of any of such ordinances except insofar
as those provisions are in direct conflict with the provisions herein con-
tained.
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SECTION 3.
The holding or adjudication of any section or part of a section
of this ordinance to be invalid shall not affect the validity of any other
section or part of a section, but all other provisions shall remain in
full force and effect. The City Council hereby declares that if it had
known that any part of said ordinance was invalid it would not have passed
the invalid provisions, but that it would have adopted those provisions
that are valid.
SECTION 4.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not to exceed One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00), and each violation thereof shall be and is hereby de-
clared to be a distinct and separate offense and punishable as such.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after the date of its passage and publication as required by law.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Adopted 3-20-46
Effective 3-30-46