HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 75ORDINANCE NUMBER 75
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE TRAFFIC OVE R, ACROSS, OR UPON THE
STREETS AND AVENUES OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT.
Be it enacted by the City Council on the City of Beaumont as follows:
SECTION 1: The following terms, whenever used in this ordinance, except
as otherwise specifically indicated, shall be deemed to have and shall be held
to include each of the meanings respectively set forth in this section, and any
such term used in the singular number shall be held to include the plural.
STREET: Every Avenue, boulevard, highway, roadway, lane, alley, strip,
path, square or place used by or laid out for the use of vehicles.
CURB: The lateral boundaries of that portion of a street designed or
intended for the use of vehicles, whether marked by curbing constructed of stone,
cement, concrete, or other material or not so marked.
VEHICLE: Every wagon, hack, coach, carriage, omnibus, pushcart, bicycle,
tricycle, automobile or other conveyance, in whatever manner or by whatever
force or power the same be driven ridden or propelled, which is or may be used
for or adapted for pleasure riding, or the transportation of passengers, baggage,
merchandise or freight upon any street; and every draft or riding animal, whether
driven ridden or led, excepting that an animal or animals attached to any
vehicle shall, wish such vehicle, constitute one hehicle.
SECTION 2: Ir shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporatiog,
either as owner, employee or otherwise, controlling, operating or in charge of
any car or train of cars, to cause or permit more trains or cars, to stand or to
be moved, in, along or across any public street in the City of B=<=aumont in such
a manner as to prevent, for a period of ten minutes or longer, and person or
vehicle from crossing the track or tracks on which such car or train or trains of
cars are standing or are being moved.
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of any provision
of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more
than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the city jail for a
period of not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance,
and shall cause the same to be published onee in the Beaumont Leader, a newspaper
of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Beaumu«r., and
30 days after its adoption the same shall be in full force and effect. Adopted
this 20th day of August, 1920.
(Seal)
_ G. W. Green
City Clerk
(Signed Robert Adams
Pres. of Board of Trustees
(Signed
I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a
meeting of the Board of Trusties of the City of Beaumont, held on the 13th day
of August, 1920, and it was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of
said Board on the 20th day of August, 1920, By the following vote:
Yeas: Ankeny, Bourne, McDonald, Truby and Adams
Nays: None
Absent: None
I further certify that the president of the Board of Trustees signed
said Ordinance on the 21st day of August, 1920
(Signed) G. W. Green
City Clerk
I hereby certify that the KI M I above ordinance was published according
to law, and that this is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 75 of the
City of Beaumont, as adopted WXWJIPC1tAX August 20, 1920.
BY
City Clerk