HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 97ORDINANCE NO. 12�
AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREETS
IN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT AS BOULEVARDS AND REGULATING
TRAFFIC ENTERING OR CROSSING THE SAM.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF BERUYONT DO ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Sixth Street from the East intersection line
of Tagno a Avenue Westerly to the West intersection line
of Grace Street, and Grace Street from the North inter-
section line of Sixth Street to the South intersection line
of Fifth Street, and Fifth Street from the East intersection
line of Grace Street to the 77est intersection lire of Bell-
wood Avenue, all in the City of Beaumont, dalifornia, are
hereby designated as boulevards, and every operator of a
vehicle traversing any street or avenue intersecting any
of said portions of said streets herein designated as
boulevards, shall stop such vehicle at the place where
such street or avenue meets the nearest property line oi'
said boulevards before entering the same, providing the
property line is clearly marked or sign posted t6 7ive
notice of such fact.
Section 2. The City marshal is hereby authorized and
require to place and maintain or cause to be placed or
maintained on the streets and avenues, appropriate mares
or sign posts upon the roadway upon each and every street
or avenue entering or crossing said boulevards, such _ark-s
or sign posts to bear the word "STOP" or words "BOULEVARD
STOP" in such position and with letters of a size to be
clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet along the
street or avenue entering said boulevard.
Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions
of thiF ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviciont thereof shall be punished for the first
offense by a fine not to exceed Fifty ($50.00) Dollars, and
by imprisorment in the City or County Jail for rot more than
five days; for a second violation within a period of one
,year, by a fine not to exceed $100.00, or by imprisonment
in the City or County Jail for not more than ten days, or
by b6hh such fine or imprisonment. For the third and each
additional offense committed within. one year, by a fine not
to exceed $300.00 or by imprisonment in the City of County
Jail for a period not to exceed two months, or by both such
fine or imprisonment.
The Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
Orc>1nance_apd sha3,1 cause the same to be published in the
a newspiler of general circulation,
pub-li she an circu ed in tree City of Beaumont, and the
same 11 be in full force and effect thirty days after
its a ption.
ADOPTED this day o �.._�, 1926.
Pre ent of the !;oar of TMustees of
the CITY OF BEAU119TdT.
ATTEST
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I, EARLS- -G- -DME, Clerk of the City of Beaumont,
hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance
No. y% of the said City, was introduced at a regular
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Beaumont,
held on the c3ay of February, 1926, and that the sane
was duly pas and adopted, signed by the Presiders of said
Board of Tru: =tees arrd attested by the Clerk at ,aregular
meeting of said Board held on the day of ' ,' �,. 1926,
and that the same was passed and adop ed by the following vote:
AYES: Trustees
NOES: Trustees �,2Y
ABSENT: Trustees
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Clerk—the ty of Beaumont.
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