Ord 1506 10/24/1949ORDINANCE NO.
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AN ORDINANCE MvENDiivG ORDT NANCE, NO. 1503, PASSED AND APPROVED
Oid 0;;`23BER 24, 1949, EATITLED " REgUIRING THAT+F'IC TO MOVE AND
PROCEED IN ONE- DIRECTION ONLY IN CERTAIN ALLEYS; PROHIBITING THE
BLOCKING OF SUCH ALLEYS; F'I.KING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION HE iEOF
l!1D REPEALING ALL ORDIMAWCE,3 IN CONi,'LICT HERE1,1II2H, It AND DECLARING
AN ;IKERGETvCY.
BE IT ORDAI='ED BY T_T'E BOARD OF ALDER L�i'N OF T u CITY OF 'WICHITA FALLS,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The alleysbetween Scott Avenue and Indiana Avenue
from Sixth Street to Eleventh Street, inclusive, are hereby
declared to be one-way alleys and all vehicles entering any of
such alleys shall enter from the North entrance of same and shall
move and proceed only in a Southerly direction therein.
SECTION 2. The alleys between Scott Avenue and Lamar Avenue
from Sixth Street to Eleventh Street, inclusive, are hereby declared.
to be one-way alleys and all vehicles entering any of such alleys
shall enter from the South entrance of same and shall move and
proceed only in a Northerly direction therein.
SF"T'ON 3. No vehicle shall be parked in any of such alleys
in such a manner as to obstruct the regular movement of traffic
therein and in cases where it is necessary for a parked vehicle to
be moved in order for the convenient loading or unloading of
another vehicle, such parked vehicle shall be moved immediately,
unless the person in charge of such parked vehicle is actually engaged
in loading or unloading such parked vehicle; but if such loading
or unloading is temporarily interrupted for any reason said parked
vehicle shall yield to the iDerson seeking to r)ark and load or unload
his vehicle. __
SE'.;i'ION 4. The Chief of Police shall cause to be placed at
appropriate points of street and alley intersections proper signs
showing and indicating the direction traffic may move and at points
of intersection of streets and alleys where entrance of vehicles
is prophibited the chief of police shall place appropriate signs
showing same.
S.',CTi0a,1 5. A person violating any part of this ordinance
shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than
„200. 00.
SECTION 6. If the person in charge of a parked vehicle
cannot be found by the use of a reasonable effort or if said
person shall refuse to move said parked vehicle under the conditions
set out in Section 3 hereof the -police department is hereby
authorized to move sage at the expense of the owner of such
vehicle.
Because traff ice is becoming congested in the above named
alleys and because there is no legal mean_ of correcting same
creates an energy-ency and the rule requirein.J the reading or ord-
inances on three separate days is hereby suspended and this
Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, aporoval
and Publication as required by law.
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ORDINANCE NO. N�'
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE 7th day of November, 1949,
May or
ATTEST: C/ /
ity Clerk_.i