HomeMy WebLinkAbout02608 ORD - 10/04/1949AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 52 OF ARTICLE V AND
SECTION 61 OF ARTICLE IX OF ORDINANCE
%.� NO. 22Lal, REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE
PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS, AND OTHER
THOROUGHFARES OF THE CITY OF CCRPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR
VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL OTHER
ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 52 of Article V of Ordinance No. 2241
be amended so as to read hereafter as follows:
"SECTION 52. Speed in School Zones. - It is hereby
determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation that, between the hours of 8:00 A. M. and
5:00 P. M. on any day when children are required to be
in attendance at school, the maximum reasonable and pra-
dent speed linit within any school zone is 15 miles par
hour, and, between such hours on any such day it shall
be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a motor
or other vehicle within such zone at a greater rate of
speed than fifteen (15) miles per hour. Provided, that
the City Traffic Engineer is hereby given authority to
change or modify the hours of enforcement when, in his
discretion, the need develops and upon his giving suffi-
cient public notice of such changes."
SECTION 2. That Section 81 of Article IX of Ordinanos No. 22i:1
be amended so as to read hereafter as follows:
"SECTION 81. Unlawfully riding. - The operator of a
motorcycle or bicycle when upon a public street shall not
carry any other person upon the beadle bar, frame, or tank
of any such vehicle. No person shall ride on any vehicle
or bicycle upon any portion thereof not designated or in-
tended for thn use of passengers. This provision shall not
apply to any employee engaged in the necessary discharge of
a duty, or to persons riding wS,thin truck bodies in space
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intended for merchandise."
SECTION 3. The fact that it is necessary to the public safety
and general welfare to protect and safeguard school children and other
pedestrians in school zones, and the fact that restrictive measures are
necessary to prevent unsafe riding practices on motorcycles and bicycles
creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the
suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be
passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such ordinance or
resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council,
and the 1byor having declared that such public emergency and imperative
necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter rule be suspended,
and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction
and teke effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this # day of October, A. D. 1949.
STs
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ity Secretary
APPROVED AS T LEGAL FORM-
i ornay
Corpus Christi, Texas
R) &4_, 1949
TO THE MWERS OF THS CITY CMCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
P Y19 of"
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Cbarter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack De Forrest
T
Barney Cott
AK-
Sydney E. Herndon
/11
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
AK-
Sydney E. Herndon
/11
George L. Losman