Ord 1398 4/9/1945 ORDIN?AP�CE NO. /
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AN ORDIPIANCE AIMING SEC`.PION? 2-402 OF THE CODIFICATION OF T� O 4DI AM,3S
OF THE CITY OF ZC11-i11A FALLS, TBLry 8 1941 ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 1315, PASS=�
ANd) APP?OVED ON TNT'., 6TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1941, CRATING AND DEFININTG PAFLIK NG
.;ETEI'ti _ZC ?8 IN THE. CITY OF da'ICHITA LS, TEXAS; PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION,
OP tATIN1G AN% I.j=T_- �]1ANCE OF IFECIHANICAL DEVICES TO HSGULAT'E PARKING IN SAID
PARKING YjIT t LOlv:_:S; PROVIDING FOR THE COLLEMION OF REGULATORY AND INSPECTION;
FEES F0 THE USE. OF SUCH DEVICES; PROVII?IN r FOit THE DEPOSIT OF SUCH FEES BY
TH-E, CITY TRZ-I SUFL. R IN A SPECLAL FUT:D; PROVIDING FOR THE =HOD AND PURPOSES
OF DISBU ,S 1;1EN;T OF SAID FUID; I,iAN III 12 UNLAVffUL TO U,9Z THE; STM_�TS OR PORTIONS
Or THE STREETS SO MZIGNNTED FOR PAHKI1M EXC.JIT THROUGH USE OF P _-PKI1\rG %;llffMS;
D11FINING 7vqiAT ACT SHALL DE UNLA'vFUL, AND FIXING PENALTIES FOR T HE, VIOLATION
OF THE PIROTISIOII S OF T:.IS 01"DINTANCE, AND ALL OBDINANCES :'.N1D PARTS
OF 01 DINANICES IN CONFLICT HL:ZidITH AMID D"ECLA�_IIYET AN C,MGE'CY.
BE IT 0;�J)AIN D BY THE PO nD OF ALD, A11 OF THE CITY OF 'IICHITA FALLS.
TEXAS:
ShCTION 1. That Section 2-402 (1249) of the codification of ordinances
of the Uity of Wichita Falls, Texas 1941, adopted by Ordinance No. 1315,
passed and approved on January 6, 1941. Be and the sale is hereby amended
so as to hereafter read as fol _ows, to-wit:
S TI�i1 2. That parts of the streets in the Uity of dchita Falls, Texas
described in Ordinance No. 131S, passed and approved April 7, A. D. 1941,
creating and establishing parking meter zones; and in such zones and in other
parkinnc meter zones as may hereafter be created by ordinances of the City
of "alichita Falls., 'exas, and in order to avoid traffic congestion and to
regulate traffic and the parkin" of vehicles in said parking zones, the City
is hereby authorized to have installed parking meters, and is authorized to
cause parking meter spaces to be designated and identified in accordance with
the provisions of this ordinance. That in said parking meter zones above
established and created and in such other par.'tintq, meter zones as may be
hereafter created by ordinance of the City of dichita Falls, said City shall
cause to be installed parking meters and shad cause parking meter spaces to be
designated and identified, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
Said parking meters are to be paid for exclusively from the receipts from said meters.
The City of jdichita Fails is in no way obligated to pay the purchase price of
said meters out of any funds, moneys or revenues of the City of 4ichita Falls,
except from the receipts received by said City from the operationsof said meters
as herein provided. The funds here authorized to be paid as the purchase price
of said meters shall never be considered in determining the constitutional
statutory or other legal 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 ":peter zones as created by Ordinance No.
1318, pa:::sed and approved April 7, A. D. 1941, and when parking meters are
installed adjacent to, or adjoining said respective parking spaces, no vehicle
shall remain parked within any of said spaces within the zone or upon any
portion of said streets in said zone described it said Ordinance No. 1318 for
a longer continuous period than two hours at any time between the hours of
o'clock A.". and 6:00 o'clock P. -3 with the following exceptions:
Th t no vehicle shall remain pared between the hours of o'clock A. 1,.
and 6:00 o'clock P. L. for a longer continuous period than/thirty minutes on
Ei7ht Street from Lamar Avenue to Indiana Avenue, and no vehicle shall remain
parked between the hours of �, o'clock A. K. to 6:00 P. !". for a longer
continuous period than one ho on the following streets, to-wit:
Eight Street, from Indiana Yvenue to Ohio avenue;
Plinth Street, from Lamar avenue to Ohio Avenue;
Indiana :venue, from Seventh Street to Tenth Street;
Scott .venue, from Seventh Street to Tenth Street;
on any day except Sundays avnd holidays officially designated by the Board of
Alderman of the City of Jichita Falls, Texas.
The fact that a great many automobiles are double parking on Light Street
to transact business with the banks and hotels due to the shortage of parking
space on account of two hour parking allowed on said street, causes a traffic
hazard and endangers life and property which creates an emergency, and this
ordinanc shall take effect won and after its passage and publication and
it i_s so ordered.
day of A. D.
PASS.il) AYM APPROVED this the Y
1945.
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City Clerk