HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 15 Ordinance No*M#
An ordinance preaoribing and fixing the saloon limits
within whiah the business of selling or vending intoxicating
liquors at retail to be drunk on the premises Nay be lawfully
conducted within the Pity of Hort Worth?�.0 f 0Vtd C'�
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Be it ordained Dy the Board of Cammissiore rs of the
City of Fort Tottht
Sec. 1. That the saloon limits, being the limits and
district within which the business of selling or trending
intoxi�ating liquors at retail to be drunk an the premises my
be lawfully conducted within the City of Fort Worth.be and the
same are hereby fixed and prescribed as follows to-witf
Beginning at a point on the south line of Belknap street
100 feet west of Houston street; thence south to the south
line of Weatherford street; thence west to the east line of
Taylor street; thence south 100 feet on Tay4eer street; thence
earn parallel with south lids of Weatherford street to a
point 100 feet west of Routon street; thence south on a line 100 to
feet west of the west line of Houston street to the south
line of Seventh street] thence west on the south line of
Seventh street to a point 100 feet west of Throckrmorton street;
thence south 200 foot thence east to the west line of Throuk•
morton street; thence south along the west line of Throckraorton
street and Jennings Ave., to the south line of Jackson street;
thence west 100 feet along the south line of Jackson street;
thence south 100 feet west of and parallel with the west
line of Jsnninga Ave;, to the north line of the Texas & Pacific:
Railway Co.'s Reservation; thence east along the north line
of said Reservation to the eaat line of ,gain Street; thence south
along the east line of Nd n Street to juggett Ate., ; thence eau t
along the north line of Daggett Ave., to the H. & T. C. RAiliway
track; thence south to a point 100 feet south of Blisabeth
Street; thence east following the 100 foot line south of
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east of the H. C. track, ( or continuation of Arizona
Ave.j j theme north through the '.Texas b Pacific Reservation
to a point intersecting the north line of Front Street east
of the viaduct over Front Street; thence east along the north
line of rFront mAreet to the City limits; thence north 100 feet;
thence vest 100 feet from and parallel with the north line of
Front Street to the vest line of Elm Street; th®ce north along
the went line of Alm street to the intersection of Elm Street
and the east line of the Railroad reselvati®nj thence north
along the east line of the Railroad reservation to a pointAeo
feet north of East Twelfth Streetjthence east along the 100 foot
line Horth of 'die Bast Twelfth Street to a point 100 feet east
of Harding Street* thoneE: north along the 100 foot line east
of Harding Street to the south line of Ninth street; thence west
along the south line of R nth ,street to the railway reservation;
%Wm south to Seventeon Street along Us awst Une of sold
4440�ithenoe west to Banta Fe Railway following the Santa Fe
Railway Aorth to the north line of S .venth street] thaaoe follow-
ing the north ;ino of seventh street west to the west line of
Such stfseet; thence north along the west lime of Rusk street
to the south line of Belknap street; thence west along the south
line of Belknap street to the point of beginning.
Also the following boundaries, towit; All th `irriter'
included withl n and known an the H&ruaa Park# situated north
of the Trinity River and bounded on the south by ]forth First
Street and on the east by North gain Street; The said part
includes only that territory north and east of said streetss.as
aforesaid which is no* enclosed with a tall board fomes
All terri tom within the corporate limits of the
ditsy of Fort Wortal wh/oh is not included in the boundaries
hereinbefore set out and mentioned is excepted #esu and excluded
from the saloon limits of the City of Part Worth.
As a police regulation and for the purpose of enabling
the Commissioners to proplrly regulate and control the rdtail
liquor traffic within said City and proporly police the
territory in which esid business is carried on and properly
restrain and protect the citizens of said City, the aforseaid
boundaries are fixed and designated and they are to remain as
and be the saloon limits of the City of port Worth, until such
t1jue as the &&we may be okwwged or madi fied by ordinances duly
passed for that purpose*
Sec, S. That no license or hermit shall be granted or
Issued by the Wity of port worth or any of its officers or
emtplayes to any person or p roone , firm or corporations or
to any persons foF them to engage in the selling of spirituous
vinous or salt liquors or any other intoxicating bene rage at
retail to be drum on the premises within the corporate lmmsitse
or district as hereinbefore defined and presoribode
Sea. 3. That no person , firu , Company, association
or corporation shall hereafter be authorised or permitted,=
the aforesaid business whithin the corporate Umaits of the
City of Fort North except as hereinbefore prescribed,
Seo. 4. That any officer or employ* of the City of Fort
Worth Who shall hereafter grant or issue or caused to be gr#Ated
or issued any retail liquor license to any person, fire, oompany
association, or oorpora►tion to engage in the selling of
spirituous, vinous or malt liquors or 4a may otb r intoxicstIng
beverage at retail to be drunk on the promises ;ithin the
oorporato Units of the Cit$ of Fort Worth,oxcept within the
district,," h.=reinbefore prescribed shall be fined in anq s»
not lose than Twenty-five dollars and no more than two hundred
dollars.
Seo. S. That any person, firm, company association or
corporation who shall hereafter engage in the selling of
spirituous,vinous or malt liquors or airy other intoxioating
beverage at retail within the CVW of ]Mrt Worth at arW plana
odtside of or beyond the saloon limits hereinbefore prescribed
orfixed shall be guilty of a min-demeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall lie fined in any sum not less than twenty-rive
dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and each day in wh9ch
Much person , firm , asociation or corporation shall so engage in
suah sale or business shall be and constitute a separate
and distinct offense/
sec. 6. That all persons, firms, companies, associations
or corporations now engaged in the business of selling of
spirituous, vinous or halt liquors or otle r intoxicating
beverpies at retail to be drunk onthe preni.ses within the
City of Fort worth at places outside of and beyond the saloon
limits as herf-inbsfwre prescribed who so operate and coen&ot
said business under a license or permit granted or issued
at any time by the said City of Fort Worth whether priaro(Or
subseq*ent to the adoption of the present City charter of
the City of Fort lot th shall cease to do business and carry
on same at such place or perces at the time this ordinance
goes Snto effsat and the said license shall at that time
be and become and the same is hereby declared to be null and
void and the said per s ons, firm, c ompa nisea:., associations
or corporations shall be entitled to a re fUn, or Xeeturn on the
same of money for the unexpired time ►, i shall bear
the same proportion to the entire coat of such license as the
unexpired time which said license had yet to run bears to the
whole length of time for which such lifense was issued, which
said refund and return A&A. %a Mde on application of the
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party entitled theret4Rby ori ®f the Board of Counissioners
of the City of Fort Worth*
Sec. 4. This $r shall take effect and be and
become a lawn V4PQ*,lta jaassage and VAbl.i lon
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as 1wescribed by lax, and all ordinances and parts of
ordinanc /
es in conflict arewith be and the same are �req"W-
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was duly presented
and unanimously passed by the Board of Commi ioners at a session held
June the 4th, 1907.
C y Secretary.