Ord 1400 4/17/1945 / J
ORDINANCE N0. l .J
AN OIZIRTANC� A:MDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 1398 PASS
AND APPROVED ON THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1945, AND FIXPT, P YALTIES
FCR THE VIOLATION OF TP.E PROVISIONS OF THIS OnI I)"AT" AYD REPEALING
ALL 0RDDJAN;,ES AP"D P."IRTS OF OFD_YA1'CLS IN CONFLICT HST?IE''YITI-' A1._7 D-�CLA'=,1-
ING A14 E'11ZE,GE1;CY.
BE -IT CRDAIN�D BY THE BQTli'D OF ALDERI:FEI+ OF THE CITY OF 71ICHI7FA
FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1398 passed and
approved on -April 9, A. D. �945, be, and the same is hereby, amended
so as to hereafter read as follows, to-wit:
SECTION 2. That parts of the streets in the City of Wichita
Falls, Texas, described in Ordinance No. 1318, passed and approved
April 7, A. D. 1941, creating and establishing parking meter zones
and in such zones and in other parking meter zcnes as may hereafter
be created bar ordinance of the City of 'dichita Falls, Texas, and in
order to avoid traffic and the parkin? of Vehicles in said parking
zones, the CitLr is hereb;- authorized to have installed parking meters,
and is authorized to cause pyrkin7 meter spaces to be designated and
identified in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance. That
in said p:-.rking meter zones above established and cr sated and in such
other parkin^ meter zones as may be hereafter created by ordinances
of the City of 'dichita Falb, said City. sh-,, cause to be installed
parking r,.eters and shall cause parkin; meter spaces to be designated
and identified, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
Said parkin- meters are to ':e paid for exclusively from the receipts
from said meters. The Citr of ulichita Falls is in no waLr obligated to
pay the purchase Write of said meters out of any funds rior_ey s or
revenues of the City of "Wichita Fails, except from the receipts re-
ceived by said City from the operations of said meters as herein pro-
vided. The funds here authorized to be paid as the purchase price
of said meters shall never be consicered in determining the constitu-
tional statutory or other leQa1 limitations imposed upon the city
with respect to its power to create debts.
That when parking meter spaces are indicated by painted lines
upon the surface of the streets in the parking meter zones as created
by Ordinance No. 1318, passed and approved Anr,1 7, A. D. 1941, and
when parking meters are installed adiacent to adjoining said respective
parking spaces, no vehicle shall remain nark ,ed within a_ry of said
spaces within the zone or upon any portion of said streets in said
zones described in said Ordinance No. 1
pperiod than at 318 for a loner continuous
n two hours per
and a 00 O'clock p,1;an time between the hours of 9:00 O'clock
.
, with the following exceptions: That no
vehicle shall remain parked between the hours of 9.00 o'clock A.LT.and 6:00 o'clock P. 1% _for a longer continuous period than thirty
minutes on Ei,7htth Street from Lamar :venue to Indiana Avenue, affd no
vehicle shall remain parked between the hours of 9:00 O'clock r.l:`.
to 6:00 o'clock. P.I:. for a longer continuous period than one hour
on the following streets, to-wit:
Eighth Street, from Indiana. Avenue to Ohio Avenue;
LighthStreet, from Lamar l"'venue to Travis Street;
Lamar Avenue, from Seventh Street to Eighth Street;
i'inth Street, from Tamar Avenue to Ohio Avenue;
Indiana Avenue, from Seventh Street to Tenth 6treet;
Scott Avenue, from Seventh Street to Tenth Street;
on any dar except Sundays and holidays officially designated by the
Poard of Aldermen of the City of ,Yichita Falls, Texas.
The fact that a great many automobiles are now double
parking on Lamar Street between Seventh and Eighth Street and
on Ei�hthStreet between Lamar and Travis Street for the pur.-
pcse of goin., to and from the bus station and in and out of
the Hamilton Building due to the shortage of parking space
caused by the two hour panting now allowed on said streets
causes a traffic hazard and endangers life and property which
creates an emergency, and this Ordinance shall take effect on
and after its passage and publicatior and it is so ordered.
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