Ord 72-2011 12/20/2011 ORDINANCE NO. 72-2011
Ordinance Amending Section 94-17 of the Code Of Ordinances Of
The City Of Wichita Falls To Authorize The Use of Golf Carts for
Holiday Parcel Delivery; Providing For Codification; And Providing
an Emergency And Effective Date
WHEREAS, Texas Transportation Code § 551.404 authorizes a municipality to
allow golf carts on its low-speed City streets as follows:
Texas Transportation Code § 551.404. Operation in Municipalities and Certain
Counties:
(a) In addition to the operation authorized by Section 551.403, the governing body of a
municipality may allow an operator to operate a golf cart on all or part of a public
highway that:
(1) is in the corporate boundaries of the municipality; and
(2) has a posted speed limit of not more than 35 miles per hour.
(b) A golf cart operated under Subsection (a) must have the following equipment:
(1) headlamps;
(2) taillamps;
(3) reflectors;
(4) parking brake; and
(5) mirrors.
WHEREAS, United Parcel Services (UPS) desires to utilize golf carts to manage
the delivery of packages during the Christmas season, and the City Council finds that
parcel services can reduce emissions, congestion, and wear-and-tear on municipal
facilities by utilizing light weight golf carts on City streets in lieu of the bulky trucks
normally used for parcel delivery during the holiday season.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
1. Golf Carts for Holiday Parcel Delivery
Section 94-17 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wichita Falls is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 94-17. Golf Carts for Holiday Parcel Delivery.
(a) From 12:00 a.m. on November 15 until 11:59 p.m. on December 31 of each year, an
employee or agent of an entity whose primary business is the delivery of parcels may
operate golf carts on public highways that have speed limits of not more than 35 miles
per hour. Pursuant to Texas Transportation Code § 551.405, golf carts so operated
may cross intersections, including a road or street that has a posted speed limit of more
than 35 miles per hour, but under no circumstances is a golf cart to be operated
pursuant to this section on, at or across an intersection with any of the following
roadways:
(1) Southwest Parkway,
(2) Kell Boulevard East,
(3) Kell Boulevard West,
(4) Kemp Boulevard,
(5) Seymour Highway,
(6) Old Jacksboro Highway,
(7) Midwestern Parkway,
(8) Call Field Road,
(9) Fairway Boulevard, or
(10) Missile Road.
(b) Any golf cart operated pursuant to this section must be equipped with headlamps,
taillamps, reflectors, a parking brake, and mirrors.
(c) The operator of a golf cart pursuant to this section must possess a valid drivers'
license that authorizes said person to operate a motor vehicle on public highways.
(d) The operator of a golf cart pursuant to this section must obey all state and local
traffic laws.
(e) "Golf cart" and "public highway" have the meanings assigned by Texas
Transportation Code § 502.001.
2. Codification
The sections of this ordinance that specify they amend or add to the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Wichita Falls are intended to be parts of said Code, and said
sections of this ordinance may be renumbered or relettered to accomplish such
intention.
3. Emergency and Immediate Effective Date
The immediate logistical need to deliver large volumes of holiday packages
creates an emergency, and in order to protect the public health, welfare and to preserve
the peace, this ordinance shall take effect immediately, and it is so ordained
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 20t" day of December, 2011.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Affidavit of Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS #275352
COUNTY OF WICHITA
ORDINANCE On this 28th day of December 2011 A D...
NO.72-2011
Ordinance Amending personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority
Section 94-17 of the P Y PP g
Code Of Ordinances Of The City Of VVichi• Kathy Salan, Sales Assistant for the Times Publishing
The Use of Golf Carts Company of Wichita Falls, publishers of the Wichita Falls
for Holiday Parcel
Delivery; Providing Times/Record News, a newspaper published at Wichita Falls in
For Codification;
And Providing an Wichita County, Texas, and upon being duly sworn by me, on
Emergency And Ef-
fective Date oath states that the attached advertisement is a true and
correct copy of advertising published in One (1) issues hereof
on the following date:
December 25, 2011
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