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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1914 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC AND THE USE OF F PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; DEFINING TERMS; PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION, REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF PARKING METERS; REQUIRING THE DEPOSIT OF COINS FOR THE USE OF PARKING METERS AND PARKING METER ZONES; PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT THEREOF; PROHIBITING THE USE OF PARKING METER ZONES BEYOND THE PERIOD OF TIME FIXED BY THE CITY ORDINANCES FOR SUCH PARKING SPACE, AND PROVIDING THAT THE DISPLAYING OF A PARKING METER SIGNAL SHOWING ILLEGAL PARKING WHILE A VEHICLE IS PARKED IN SUCH SPACE SHALL BE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE SAID VEHICLE HAS BEEN PARKED OVER TIME; PRESCRIBING THE MANNER OF PARKING VEHICLES IN PARKING METER ZONES; PRO- HIBITING THE USE OF SUBSTITUTES FOR UNITED STATES COINS IN PARKING METERS; PROHIBITING THE DEFACING OR INJURING OF PARKING METERS; PROVIDING THAT THE FEES COLLECTED BY PARKING METERS ARE LEVIED AS POLICE REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR LOADING ZONES AND SAFETY ZONES; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES IN VIOLATION HEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF UNREDEEMED IMPOUNDED VEHICLES; PROVIDING THAT THIS- IMPOUNDING FEE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE OF OTHER REMEDIES; PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE FUNDS DEPOSITED IN PARKING METERS; DEFINING AND STIPULATING PARKING METER ZONES; PERMITTING PARKING ON CERTAIN STREETS; PROHIBITING PARKING ON CERTAIN STREETS; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND PROVIDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION I, The word "vehicle" as used herein shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be trans- ported upon a highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks. The word "park" or "parking" when used herein shall mean VO the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in load- ing or unloading passengers or merchandise. The word "loading zone" when used herein shall mean a space �^ or section of the curb set aside for the exclusive use of loading and unloading persons, supplies or merchandise. SECTION II. That the parts of streets in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, described in Sections XVIII, XIX and XX of this ordinance are es- tablished as parking meter zones, and in said zones and such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created by ordinance of the City of Fort Worth, the city is authorized to have installed parking meters and is authorized to cause parking meter spaces to be designated in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance. When signs are erected, or curbs are painted giving notice thereof, or parking meters are installed in each block, no vehicle shall remain parked for longer than twenty (20) minutes at any time between the hours of 8 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. of any day ex- cept Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council, with- in the district or upon any of the streets described in section XVIII of this ordinance, nor for longer than forty (40) minutes at any time between the hours of 8 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. of any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council, within. the district or upon any of the streets described in Section XIX of this ordinance, nor for longer than one hour at any time between the hours of 8 A. M. and 6:30 F. M. of any day except Sun- days and holidays officially set by the City Council, within the district or upon any of the streets described in Section XX of this ordinance. SECTION III. That the City Manager, or such other officers or employees of the City of Fort Worth as he may select, are hereby authorized �r to install or place parking meters in such parking meter zones hereby created or to be created by other ordinances of the City of Fort Worth. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb along side of or next to individual parking places to be designated as hereinafter provided. Each said parking meter shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking space along side of same is or is not in use. The City Manager, or such officers or employees above re- ferred to, shall provide for the installation, regulation, control, operation and use of the parking meters provided for in this ordi- nance and shall maintain said meters in good workable condition; each said parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of a five-cent coin of the United Statds therein for a period of time conforming to the park- ing limit now or hereafter provided by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed; and each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue in operation from the time of depositing such coin until the expiration of the time fixed by said ordinances as the parking limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed; each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said parking limit, it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the appearance of proper signal that the lawful parking period as fixed by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth has expired. SECTION Iii. When any vehicle shall be parked in any space along side of or next to which there is located, under this ordinance, a park- ing meter, the owner, operator, manager or driver of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking space, immediately deposit a five-cent coin of the United States in the parking meter along side of or next to said parking space, and the said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking limit pro- vided by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said ve- hicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth for such parking space, the parking meter shall display a sign showing illegal parking-and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of time fix- ed by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyozid the period of time fixed now or hereafter by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth in any such part of the street where any such meter is located,• shall be a violation of this ordinance and punished as hereinafter set out. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle registered in his or another's name to be parked overtime or beyond the lawful period of time as above de- scribed. SECTION V. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to de- posit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a five-cent coin for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the time fixed by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, for park- ing in the parking space along side of or next to which said park- ing meter is placed. SECTION VI. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to per- mit a vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space along side of or next to which any parking meter is placed while said meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been already parked beyond the period of time fixed by the ordi- nances of the City of Fort worth for such parking space, That the displaying of a sign showing illegal parking by any parking meter while a vehicle is parked in a parking space ad5oining said parking meter shall be prima facie evidence that said vehicle has been parked overtime and beyond the period of time fixed now or hereafter by the ordinances of the City of Fort Worth. SECTION VII. It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman, or such other officer as shall be so instructed by the Chief of Police in his beat or district, to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is overparked as provided in this ordinance and file a complaint for any violation in the Corporation Court of said city. SECTION VIII. Any vehicle parked in any parking space in any parking meter zone shall be parked with the hood of such vehicle along side of or next to the parking meter along side of such parking space in parallel parking spaces, and with the radiator directed at the said meter in diagonal parking spaces, and in either event shall be parked within the lines marked on the street for such parking space as provided hereinafter. SECTION IX. The Chief of Police, or such other officers or employees of the city as he shall select, shall place lines or marks on the curb or ou the street about or along side of each parking meter to designate the parking space for which said meter is to be used and each vehicle p&rked along side of or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful and an offense to park any vehicle across any such line or mark or to park said vehicle in such way that the same shall not be within the area so designated by such line or marking. SECTION X. It shall be unlawful and an offense to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substi- tute for a five-cent coin of the United States. SECTION XI. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to de- face, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or im- pair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this ordinance. SECTION XII. The five-cent coins required to be deposited, as provided herein, are hereby levied as police regulation, supervision and inspection fees to cover the cost of inspection, supervision and regulation involved in the inspection, installation, operation, control and use of the parking spaces and parking meters described herein, and involved in checking up and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby. SECTION XIII. The City Manager or such officers or employees as he may designate are hereby authorized to establish such loading zones as are necessary for the conduct of business, to omit parking me- ters from such loading zones, and to properly sign and mark such zones. No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a loading zone for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers for-,.a period in excess of two minutes. The use of loading zones for the loading or unloading of merchandise shall be confined to the handling of heavy or bulky materials. All such loading or unloading must be performed in an expeditious manner, and no vehicle may remain in a loading zone for a period of time greater than necessary to expeditiously load or unload same, hor while the operator thereof is soliciting or engaged otherwise than in the loading or unloading of the vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allowed for securing a re- ceipt of delivery. The use of metered spaces for loading or unloading merchan- dise as defined above will be permitted before the hour of 10 A. M. without the depositing of a coin in the parking meter of such said space, except that the vehicle must load or unload centered as nearly as possible in a single metered space and in the manner above described. The above regulations shall apply only between the hours of 8 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. and on days other than Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council. SECTION XIV. In the event any vehicle shall be found standing or parked in or upon any regularly designated parking meter space, or in or upon any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk, thoroughfare or public place within the city limits of the City of Fort Worth, in viola- tion of and contrary to any of the rules, regulations and ordi- nances of said city that are now or may be hereafter in effect, the same shall be a nuisance and shall be removed by any police officer and taken to Police Headquarters, or some other place set City Council of the City of Fort Worth aside for such purpose by the and there kept by some officer until application for its redemption shall be made by the owner or his duly authorized agent, who shall be entitled to the possession thereof upon the payment to said City of Fort Worth of the sum of Two Dollars ($2.00), together with all other costs of removal and storage that may have accrued thereon. SECTION XV. In the event the vehicles impounded as set out 14 Section XIV of this ordinance shall not be redeemed by its owner or its agent within five (5) days, then such vehicle shall be sold for such penalty, charges and costs,in the manner as nearly as prac- ticable as is provided by Section 56, Title I, Chapter 13, of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, for the sale of impounded animals. SECTION XVI, The remedy and impounding fee and costs provided for in this ordinance shall be cumulative of any and all other penalties that may be provided. SECTION XVII. That it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to desig- nate some member, or members, of his department to make regular collections of the money deposited in said meters. In this con- nection, it shall be the duty of such persons so designated to pick up the sealed cylinders containing the coins as deposited in the meters and deliver such cylinders with the seals unbroken to the City Secretary. It shall be the duty of the City Secretary to break the seals and count the funds and deposit same to the credit of the City of Fort Worth in a special fund called "Park- ing Meter Fund," which said fund shall be disbursed on order of the City Council. That the duties prescribed to the officer and/ or officers of the City of Fort Worth under the terms of this section shall be in addition to their regular duties which they are now performing. SECTION XVIII. A meter zone, No. 1, is established on the following streets limiting parking to twenty (20) minutes, as follows: STREET EXTENT SIDE Seventh Main to Houston North only Eighth Houston to 6W Throckmorton North only SECTION XIX. A meter zone, No. 2, is established on the following streets limiting parking to forty (40) minutes, as follows: STREET EXTENT SIDE Main Second to Tenth Both Houston First to Tenth Both SECTION XX. A meter zone, No. 3, is established on the following streets limiting parking to one (1) hour, as follows: STREET EXTENT SIDE Throckmorton Fifth to Ninth East Throckmqrton Fifth to Eighth We at <second Main to Throckmorton Both F 'Third Main to Throckmorton Both Fourth Main to Throckmorton Both Fifth Commerce to Throckmorton Both (CONTINUED) STREET EXTENT SIDE Sixth Commerce to Throckmorton North only Seventh Commerce to Main North only Eighth Commerce to Houston Both Ninth Commerce to Houston North only SECTION XXI. Parallel parking for one (1) hour on the north side of Weatherford Street between Commerce and Houston Streets shall -here- after be permitted between the hours of 8 k. M. and 6:30 P. M., with the exception that this limitation shall not apply on Sundays. SECTION XXII. It shall be unlawful for the driver or owner of any ve- hicle 'to park said vehicle or to permit the same to be parked, stand or remain on the south side of Sixth Street between Main and Taylor Streets, and on both sides of First Street between Houston and Throckmorton Streets. SECTION XXIII. This ordinance shall be and is hereby declared to be cumu- lative of all other ordinances of the City of Fort Worth affecting traffic and shall not operate to repeal or affect any such ordi- nance or ordinances, except insofar as the provisions of such or- dinance or ordinances are inconsistent or in conflict with the pro- visions of #.itis ordinance, in which instance or instances those provi,siovm sba_,l be and they are hereby repealed. ;sem SECTION XXIV. 7 = actiL n or provision or part thereof in this ositimAce .ball } �dffed invalid or unconstitutional by a court of Com- Petah` 00RAiction, such acjudication shall, not affoot 'Cha valid ty L, smd1nance as a whole or of "� �n`J �'4 prov°isio, r Ak part thereof not adjuu_ invalid or =canst.tu4.ional. SECTION XXV. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or per- mit, suffer or allow anyone to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of an offense, aitd upon conviction shall be fined not to exceed the sum of One Hundrdd Dollars ($100). SECTION XXVI. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and publica- tion as required by law. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ' Ul y Attorney all (l