Ord 1424 1/7/1947 i
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING PARKING OF TRUCKS AND MOTOR
VLNICLES USED Iiv THE TRANSPORTATION OF GASOLINE OR LIQUIFIED PE-
TROLEUM GASES OF ALL KINDS FROIM THE STREETS, ALLEYS OR OTHER PUBLIC
PLACIiS OF THE CITY OF v'41Gr lTA FALL6, TEXAS, EXCEPT vVIIEN SUCH TRUCKS
AND MOTOR VEHICLES ARE ACTUALLY ENGAGED III UNLOADING GASOLINE OR
LIQUIFIED P.E'TROLELPM GASES AT FILLIiIG STATIO:tvS AND OTIIi-.R PLACES _41i1EHE
SUCH GASOLINE A11D LIQUIFIED FE 'ftOLEUM GASES ARE SOLD AT E AIL OR
AT PLACES ,`HERE SAME ARE BEI14G LAWFULLY USED FOR DOT&STIC AND COM-
MFLRCT_kL PURPOSES; PRESCRIBING A PENALTY, AND DECLARI A G AN :EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
VVICHI`1'A FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation, to park or to permit to be parked upon any
street, alley or other public place of the City of Wichita Falls,
any truck or other motor vehicle used in transporting gasoline or
liquified petroleum gases, except where such trucks or motor ve-
hicles are actually engaged in unloading gasoline or liquified
petroleum gases at a fillinE station or other place where such
gasoline or liquified petroleum gases is sold at retail or at a
place where same is being lawfully used for domestic or commercial
purposes.
SECTION 2.
That any person violating any provision of this Ordi-
nance shall upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction
be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars, nor more
than Two Hundred Dollars.
SECTION 3.
The fact that many trucks used in transporting gaso-
line and liquified petroleum gases are now being parked upon the
streets and other public places within the corporate limits of the
City of Wichita Falls, and that the presence of said parked trucks
and motor vehicles jeopardize the peace and health of the citizens
of said City creates an emergency, and this Ordinance is hereby
declared an emergency measure on the ground of urgent public need
for the preservation of peace, health and safety of property; and
the rule requiring the reading of Ordinances on three several days
is hereby suspended, and this Ordinance shall take effect from and
after its passage and approval, and after- same has been published
one time in the official newspaper of the City of �lichita Falls,
Texas.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 7 _ day of ♦see , A.D.
194�.
MAYOR
ATTEST• L`����, ,
CITY CLERK.