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ORDINANCE NO .
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC
ON STREITS, AVENUES AND THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY
OF FORT 'NORTH, TEXAS, AND REQUIRING VEHICLES TO COME TO
A COMPLETE STOP BEFORE APPROACHING OR ENTERING CERTAIN
STREETS AND THOROUGHFARES 'THERE STOP SIGNS AND SIGNALS
HAVE BEEN PLACED, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
OF SUCH ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION I.
Definitions : Unless it appears from the context
that a different meaning is intended, the following words
shall have the meaning attached to them by this section;
(a) The term "street" shall mean and include
any street, alley, avenue, lane, public place or highway
within the City limits of the City of Fort Worth.
(b) The term 11 curb" shall mean the edge of a
roadway or street marker, designated and otherwise under-
stood to be such.
(a) The term "vehicle" shall mean and include
any automobile, bicycle, truck, street car or conveyance
of any kind or character, and include a horse or any other
traffic animal.
(d) The term "driver" shall mean any person in
control of a vehicle.
(e) The term "stop sign" shall mean any sign
or symbol in writing or in print with the word "stop" on
it, placed in some convenient location in the street.
(f) The term "limit lines" shall mean boundaries
or other lines that may be drawn or designated by the
Chief of Police or any of his assistants .
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(g) The term "intersection of a street" shall
mean any part of one street that crosses another street.
(h) The term "curb line" shall mean the line
that would exist if the curb on a ctreet were extended
across an intersecting street.
SECTION II.
That the driver of any vehicle on the streets
of the City of Fort Worth shall bring his vehicle to a
full and complete stop not more than twenty feet from
the curb line, when approaching the intersection and be-
fore crossing the curb line in any of the following
streets in the sAta City:
(a) !fest 7th street from the east line of
Taylor street to the west line of Penn street.
(b) Jennings Avenue from the north line of
Rio Grande street to the south line of Magnolia Avenue.
(c) Magnolia Avenue from the east line of
South Main street to the west line of Bighth Avenue.
SECTION III.
That any driver of a vehicle approaching the
intersection of any street, in addition to the streets
designated in Section II, at which intersection a stop
sign has been placed by order of the City Council of
said City, shall bring such vehicle to a full and complete
stop not more than twenty feet from the curb line before
entering such street or crossing the curb line of same.
SECTION IV.
T he present crowded and congested condition of the
traffic on the streets , highways and portions of streets
and highways hereinbefore mentioned, and the .constantly
increasing vehicular traffic in the City of Fort orth
creates a dangerous condition and a menance to life and
property, thereby making at imperatively necessary to
adopt and enforce the regulations herein prescribed.
SECTION V.
That the holding or adjudication of any section
or subdivision of any section or part of any subdivision
of any section of this Ordinance to be invalid, shall not
affect the validity of any other section of part of the
subdivision of the section thereof, but all other sections ,
subdivisions and parts of subdivisions of sections shall
be and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION VI.
This Ordinance is hereby declared to be cumulative
of all of the provisions of Ordinances regulating and gov-
erning vehicular traffic upon and along the streets of the
City of Fort North, and shall not be held to repeal any of
the provisions of any of such Ordinances except in those in-
stances where such Ordinances are in direct conflict with
the express provisions of this Ordinance.
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SECTION VII.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof, shall be convicted of a fine not to
exceed One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after the date of its passaga dnd publication as
required by law.
Approved as to form:
city orney.