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Home My WebLink About03282 ORD - 06/24/1952WMHAJR: GP 6/17/52 (5) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2241., PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ON THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, AND ENTITLED: "REGULAT- ING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CON- FLICT HEREWITH", AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, PARTICU- LARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2722, BY AMENDING ARTICLE VIIJ',BY THE AMENDMENT OF SECTIONS 63 AND 64,IN GRANTING AUTHORITY TO THE CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO ERECT "YIELD RIGHT OF WAY' SIGNS AND TO DETERMINE AND DESIGNATE INTERSECTIONS WHERE SUCH SIGNS ARE REQUIRED; BY THE AMENDMENT OF SECTION 65 SO THAT SUCH "YIELD RIGHT OF WAY" SIGNS ARE DESCRIBED AND DESIGNATED AS TO LOCATION; AND FURTHER, BY THE AMENDMENT OF SAID ARTICLE BY THE INSERTION OF SUBSECTION 66A THEREIN PROVIDING THAT VEHICLES APPROACHING "YIELD RIGHT OF WAY" SIGNS SHALL SLOW TO A SPEED OF TEN MILES PER HOUR AND YIELD RIGHT OF WAY, AND SETTING FORTH PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO SO DO; PROVIDING FOR MANNER OF PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDI- NANCE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION L. THAT ORDINANCE N0. 2241, KNOWN AS THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ON THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, AND ENTITLED: "REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH." AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND IN PARTICULAR AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE N0. 2722, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING ARTICLE VIII THERE- OF AS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 21 3, 4, AND 5 OF THIS ORDINANCE. SECTION 2. THAT SAID ARTICLE VIIIOF SAID ORDINANCE 2241, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING SECTION 63 THEREOF, 50 THAT SAID SECTION 63 SHALL HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION 63. AUTHORITY TO ERECT STOP AND /OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS. -- WHENEVER ANY ORDINANCE OF THIS CITY DESIGNATES AND DESCRIBES A THROUGH STREET IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF THE CITY TRAF- FIC ENGINEER TO PLACE AND MAINTAIN A STOP OR YLELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN ON EACH AND EVERY STREET INTERSECTING SUCH THROUGH STREET OR INTERSECTING THAT PORTION THEREOF DESCRIBED AND DESIGNATED AS SUCH BY ANY ORDINANCE OF THIS CITY." SECTION 3. THAT SAID ARTICLE VIII OF SAID ORDINANCE 2241, BE AND THE m U SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING SECTION 64 THEREOF, SO THAT SAID SECTION 64 SHALL HEREAF'T'ER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION 64. INTERSECTIONS WHERE STOP OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY REQUIRED. -- THE CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO DETERMINE AND DESIGNATE INTERSECTIONS WHERE PARTICULAR HAZARD EXISTS UPON OTHER THAN THROUGH STREETS AND TO DETERMINE WHETHER VEHICLES SHALL STOP OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY AT ONE OR MORE ENTRANCES TO ANY SUCH STOP OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY INTERSECTION, AND SHALL ERECT A STOP OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN AT EVERY SUCH PLACE WHERE A STOP OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY RESPECTIVELY IS REQUIRED.°1' - SECTION 4. THAT SAID ARTICLE VIII OF SAID ORDINANCE 2241 BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING SECTION 65 THEREOF, SO THAT SAID SECTION 65 SHALL HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 65. SIGNS TO BEAR THE WORDS 'STOP' OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY'. STOP SIGNS ERECTED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE SHALL BEAR THE WORD 'STOP' IN LETTERS NOT LESS THAN 5 INCHES IN HEIGHT. THE YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN SHALL BE OF THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE DIAGRAM ATTACHED TO AND MADE A PART OF THIS ORDINANCE. SUCH SIGNS MAY AT NIGHT TIME BE RENDERED LUMINUS BY STEADY OR FLASHING INTERNAL ILLUMINATION, OR BY A FIXED FLOODLIGHT PROJECTED ON THE FACE OF THE SIGN, OR BY EF- FICIENT REFLECTING ELEMENTS ON THE FACE OF THE SIGN. EVERY STOP SIGN OR YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN SHALL BE LOCATED AS NEAR AS PRACTICABLE AT THE NEAREST LINE OF THE CROSSWALK ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE-INTER- SECTION, OR, IF NONE, AT THE NEAREST LINE OF THE ROADWAY." SECTION 5. THAT SAID ARTICLE VIII OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 22111, BE AND THE, SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY THE ADDITION AND INSERTION OF A SECTION 66A, t ' SAID SECTION 66A TO READ AS. FOLLOWS: "SECTION 66A. VEHICLES TO YIELD RIGHT OF WAY. -- THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE APPROACHING A YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN SHALL SLOW TO A. SPEED OF NOT MORE THAN TEN MILES PER HOUR (10 M. P. H.) AND YIELD RIGHT OF WAY TO ALL VEHICLES APPROACHING FROM THE RIGHT OR LEFT ON THE INTERSECTING STREETS WHICH ARE SO CLOSE AS TO CONSTITUTE. AN IMMEDIATE HAZARD. IF A DRIVER IS INVOLVED IN A COLLISION AT AN INTERSECTION OR INTERFERENCE WITH THE MOVEMENT OF OTHER VEHICLES AFTER DRIVING PAST A YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN, SUCH COLLISION OR INTERFERENCE SHALL BE DEEMED PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF THE DRIVER'S FAILURE TO YIELD RIGHT OF WAY." SECTION 6. THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PUBLICATION ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL BE SUFFICIENT IF IT CONTAIN THE CAPTION AND TITLE HEREOF, AND STATE IN SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE PENALTY. FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. SECTION 7. THAT THE NECESSITY OF PROVIDING FOR THE SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC BY MAINTAINING RULES AND REGULATION GOVERNING TRAFFIC UPON PUBLIC STREETS AND THOROUGHFARES IN LINE WITH THE GROWTH OF THE CITY OF -2- CORPUS CHRISTI, AND IMMEDIATE NEED OF THE AFORESAID AMENDMENTS TO SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, DECLARING SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THFI-� �--o� AY OF JUNE, A.D. 1952• MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS TTEST: CITY SECRETARY APPROVED AS A0 LEGAL ` FORM: I TY- ATTORNEY fqo 7"Lt7TTERS M2 LETTERS TRAFFIC YELLOW BACKGROUND' D�aD MnlQ�i lr ice— I' o" --.� 2' 2%z "LF T1=RS CM Or CORPUS CF+IRISTI. -rrXAS PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT ENOINEERIN- DI .ISION OTANDARD TRAFT IC Yl-f-LD SIGN'._ 0 Corpus Christi, Texas 9z_d�oZ 19 ;�".L TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen: For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion 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, 1'::P i&tAAAA. MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman _ Frank E. Williamson The above ordinance was passed-by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest , Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman Frank E. Williamson