Ordinance No. 752ORDINANCE NO. 752
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY CONNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, TO BE KNOWN AS THE "RRAFFIC CODE OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN; " REGULATING TRAFFIC ON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE
CITY OF BATTOWN; WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED; AUTHORITY OF
POLICE; DRIVING REGULATIONS -SPEED; DRIVING REGULATIONS -
RULES OF THE ROAD; TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNALS ON
STOPPING AND TURNING; ACCIDENTS, RECKLESS DRIVING, START-
ING PARKED VEHICLES; TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS; PEDES-
TRIANS*RIGHTS AND DUTIES; PARKING REGULATIONS; SPECIAL STOPS
REQUIRED; MISCELLANEOUS DR3VING RULES; REPEALING ORDINANCES
lNeONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRES-
CRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS;
AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREOF.
ORDINANCE NO. 753
AN ORDINANCE FIXING AND DETERMINING THE RATES AND CHARGES
FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE SERVICE AND MISCELLANEOUS
SERVICES OF THE GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST
IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS; DISCONTINUING THE OFFERING
OF FOUR PARTY SERVICE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1965; FIXING CERTAIN
EXTENDED AREA SERVICE RATES; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM
PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS; PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE RATES HEREIN ESTABLISHED; AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION THEREOF.
Please publish:
Tuesday, August 31, 1965
Thursday, September 2, 1965
Section 3: That the form of the Lallot shall be substantially
as follows:
BAT
Shall the MINIMUI:i SALARY of each member of the
Police and Fire Departments of the City of Bay-
town, governed by the Civil Service Laws of this
State, as adopted by the City, be INCREASED in
the amount of $50.00 per month?
FOR the proposed minimum salary increase of $50.00
per month per Policeman and Fireman.
AGAINST the proposed minimum salary increase of
$50.00 per month per Policeman and Fireman.
Section 4: That such Special Election shall be held between
the hours of 7:00 o'clock a.m. and 7:00 o'clock p.m. on the IS'C-t
day of September, 1965, from the City at large and said City of Bay-
town is hereby divided into Election Precincts and their polling
places will be and the Election Officials shall be, for the purpose
of this Election, as follows:
Precinct No. Polling Place Officials
No. 12 Alamo Elementary J. 1hVinston Ha es Jr.
School Judge Presiding Officer
I-virs. L. E. Kirkle
Assistant Judge
Mrs. Charles E. Gates
Assistant Judge
No. 13 David G. Burnet Joe H. Allen
Elementary School Judge & Presiding Officer
iq. P. Smith
Assistant Judge
Mirs. Dorothy St. John
Assistant Judge
No. 99 Thad Felton Ford Jack G. Hester
Company Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. Jack G. Hester
Assistant Judge
?Ars. Mary Grantham
Assistant Judge
No. 100 Ashbel Smith Elementary W. 0. Tidmon
School Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. E. R. Rutledge
Assistant Judge
Gerald Atkinson
Assistant Judge
Precinct No. Polling Place Officials
No. 101 Volunteer Firemen's Lirs. G. F. Dabney
Recreation Hall Judge & Presiding Officer
irlrs. Alma Moore
Assistant Judge
lairs. S. V. Robberson
Assistant Judge
No. 102 Baytown Junior High A. Contreras
School Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. J. W. Sj2rayberry
Assistant Judge
Mrs. Nami Katribe
Assistant Judge
No. 103 Stephen F. Austin ivirs. Claude Tipton
Elementary School Judge to Presiding Officer
t.irs . John Nelson
Assistant Judge
?sirs. Clyde Childres
Assistant Judge
No. 149 San Jacinto elementary T. L. Kloesel
School Judge & Presiding Officer
Wayne J. Wolfe
Assistant Judge
Mrs. Fred J. Marti
Assistant Judge
No. 165 Travis Elementary John W. Pierce
School Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. John W. Pierce
Assistant Judge
Mirs. T. H. Pierson
Assistant Judge
No. 248 Carver High School Woodrow VJ. Lewis
Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. C. D. Reed
Assistant Judge
Mrs. Vir ie Devereaux
Assistant Judge
No. 249 James Bowie Elementary Wayne McClurg
School Judge & Presiding Officer
Mrs. tsodine Baker
j'ssistant Judge
1,.3rs. Bonnie Woods
Assistant Judge
Section 5: The Chief of Police is hereby directed to post a
properly executed copy of the Flection Proclamation and Notice at
each Polling Place within the City and the t,iayor is hereby directed
to give further Notice of said Election by publishing a copy of the
Election Proclamation and Hotice in a newspaper of general circula-
tion within the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
members of the City Council of the City of Baytown on this the 26th
day of August, 1965.
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Seaborn Cravey, i.tayor
ATTEST:
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORi.i:
George Cha dler, City Attorney
Tommy MtcI.tanu , AttoIlney fo
Police and i e Departments
A. R. Liles, President
Baytown Municipal Police Association
W. C. Turner, President of the
International Association of Fire
Fighters, Local No. 1173
I, Edna Oliver, duly qualified acting City Clerk of
the City of Baytown, Texas, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing instrument is a true and correct
copy of original Ordinance Ho. '7, duly ;gassed by the
City Council.
/-) l ,JITNESS mand and seal of the City of Baytown, this
ryC r/ .day of , 1965.
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 7,s_A
AN ORDINMCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYT0WN,
TEXAS, TO BE KNOWN AS THE "TRAFFIC CODE OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOUN;" REGULATING TRAFFIC ON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE
CITY OF BAYTOWN; k4ORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED; AUTHORITY OF
POLICE; DRIVING REGULATIONS -SPEED; DRIVING REGULATIONS -
RULES OF THE RO,iD; TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNriLS OIJ
STOPPING AND TURNING; ACCIDENTS, RECJKLESS DRIVING, START-
ING PARKED VEHICLES; TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS; PEDES-
TRIANS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES; PARKING REGULATIONS; SPECIAL
STOPS REQUIRED; I.iISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES; REPEALING OR-
DINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREIlITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PRESCRIBING A ieMIi.M,,i PENALTY OF TI JO HUNDRED ( X200.00) DOL-
LARS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTO':JN:
ARTICLE 1: WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
Section 1: (a) Definition of Words and Phrases:
The following words and phrases when used in this
ordinance shall, for the purpose of this ordinance, have the mean-
ing respectively ascribed to them; and
Whenever any words and phrases used in this ordinance
are not defined herein, but are defined in the State Laws regulat-
ing the operation of vehicles, any such definition therein shall
be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein.
SUBDIVISION 1: VEHICLES, TRAFFIC,
ETC. DEFINED
Section 2: (a) Vehicle: Every device in, upon or by which
any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a
highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
(b) blotor Vehicle: Every vehicle which is self-
propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power
obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
(c) Authorized Emergency Vehicle: Vehicles of
the Fire Department, Police vehicles and such ambulances and emer-
gency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corpora-
tions, as are designated by the City Council of the City of Bay-
town.
Section 3: (a) Bicycle: Every device propelled by human
power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels,
either of which is over twenty (2011) inches in diameter, and in-
cluding any device generally recognized as a bicycle though
equipped with two front or two rear wheels.
(b) Motorcycle: Every motor vehicle having a
saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not
more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding
a tractor.
Section 4: (a) Railroad: A carrier of persons or property
upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
or other motor,
on rails, except
(b) Railroad
with or without
streetcars.
Train: i,. steam engine, electric
cars coupled thereto, operated up -
Section 5: Traffic: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals;
vehicles and other conveyances; -either singularly or together,
while using any stree c for purposes. of travel.
Section 6: Rich- of -Way: The privilege of the imimediate
use of the roadway.
Section 7: (a) Stoo: Jhen required, means cessation of
movement.
(b) Stogy, Stoppinq or Standing: ',!henprohibi ted,
means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or
in compliance with the directions of .a police -officer or traffic
control sign or signal.
(c) Park: .then prohibited, :jeans the standing �7
a vehicle, whether occupied or no., otherwise, than temporarily fcr
the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
Section 8: Official Time Standard: Jhenever certain houic
are named herein they shall_ mean standard time or daylight-saving,
time as may be in current use in this City.
SUBDIVISION IT - PERSONS
ET, DEFINED
Section g: (a) Persons: Lvery natural person, firm, co-
partnership, association or corporation.
(b) Driver: Every person who drives or is in
actual physical cont -col of a vehicle.
(c) Pedestrian: Any person -afoot.
Section 10: (a) Police Officer: Lavery officer cf the munici-
pal department or any otheF7 officer authorized to direct or regulate
traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
SUBDIVISION I I I
ETC. DEFINED
Section 11: (a) Street or Highway: The entire width between
the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any par(-,-
thereof
arethereof is open to the use of the public for }purposes of vehicular
travel.
(:D) Private Road or Driveway: Every way or place
in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and
those having express or implied permission from the owner.
(c) Roadway: That portion of a street.or highiway
improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. In the
event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term
"roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately
but not to all such roadways collectively.
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(d) Sidewalk: That portion of a street between
the curb lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intendeu:
for the use of pedestrians.
Section 12: Intersection:
(a) The area embraced within the prolongation or
connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral
boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another
at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicl!:s
traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may co�c:
in conflict.
(b) Uhere a highway includes two roadways thirty
(30') feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of suer.
divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a
separate intersection. In the event such intersecting highway also
includes two roadways thirty (301) feet or more apart, then, every
crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a
separate intersection.
Section 13: Crosswalk:
(a) That part of a roadway at an intersection in-
cluded within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks
on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the
absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway.
(b) ilny portion of a roadway at an intersection
or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines o._
other markings on the surface.
Section 14: Safety Zone:
(a) The area or space officially set apart within
a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protcc!.,,,U
or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly v�.:,,
ible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
(b) Passer er Loading Zone: A space adjacent to
a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles doing the loading
or unloading of passengers.
(c) Loading Zone: Aspace adjacent to a curb re-
served for the exclusive use of vehicles doing the loading or unload-
ing of passengers or materials.
Section 15: (a) Official -Traffic -Control Devices: "111 signs,
signals, markings and devices not inconsistent aith this ordinance
placed.or erected by authority of a public body or official having
jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
(b) Traffic -Control Signal: Any device, whether
manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is
alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
(c) Traffic --Control Sign or Device: All signs;
signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this ordinance
placed or erected by authority of the City Council of the City of E'�_y
town for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
ARTICLE II - AUTHORITY OF POLICE
Section 16: Police to Direct Traffic: It shall be the duty
the Police Department of this City to enforce the provisions of this
ordinance. Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized
to direct all traffic, either in person or by means of visible
audible signals in conformance with the provisions of this ordinanc..
providing that in the event of a fire or other emergency or to exped-
ite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers of the Police or Fir,c
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Department may direct traffic, as conditions may require, notwith-
standing the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 17: !he City Council _.-.uthorized to Adopt Emergence
and oth_e_r Regulations Ths City Council is hereby empowered, by
resolution, to ; ake and enforce regulations necessary to rake effect-
ive the provisions of this ordinance and to make and enforce te�por-
ary regulations to cover emergency or special conditions.
Section 18: Obedience to PoliceOf_f_icers: A person shall wil-
fully fail or refuse to comply ..with any lawful order or direction of
any police cffi cer investeo by law with authority to direct, control
or regulate traffic,
Section 19: Pablic Officers and Emgloeees to Obey Ordinance
Exception: The provisions of this ordinance applicable to the
drivers of vehicles upon tno highways shall apply to the drivers
of all vehicles owned or o aerated. by the United States, this state
or any county, city, Koon, district, or any other political subdi-
vision of the state, subject to such specific exceptions as are set
forth in this ordinance with reference to authorized emergency
vehicles.
Section 20:
mal Drawn Vehicles: Every person propelling any
animals, ridingTa bicycle or driving any animal
a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and
all of the duties applicable to the driver of a
ante, except those provisions of this ordinance
nature can have no application.
t s ,
pushcart, riding
drawn vehicle upon
shall be subject to
vehicle by this ordin-
which by their ver,j
Section 21: Use of_Coasters,_ Roller Skates and ;similar Devices
Restricted: do person Ripon roller skates or riding in or by means of
any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device shall go upon any roadway
except while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing
such person shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to
all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not
apply upon any street while set aside as a play street as authorized
by ordinance of this City.
ARTICLE III -- DRIVING Ri:GULATIONS - SPEED
Section 22: Ueon the basis of an engineering and traffic in-
vestigation heretoioze madn as authorized by the provisions of Sec-
tion 9 of Article ?27a '
2a' Vernon's Texas Penal Code, the naximurn speed
limits for all motor y ekj, e (except omerger cy vehicles) shall be
30 rules per hour oxceph as follows:
a) 3.5 KilgV Per Hcur Wad Zones
1.
Uest Texas Avenue: From Goose
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Creel; Stream to Airhart
drive.
2.
HighwayNo.
146; From Holiday
Inn to Davis Road.
3.
Park Street:
From Bayway Drive
to Airhart Drive.
4.
Lee Drive:—
From Gentry Street
to :Jest =;ain btreet.
40 Miles Per !iouc Speed
Zones
1. South Alexander Drive: From the intersection of South
�'_ain Street to the intersection of Highway do. 145.
2. West Wain Street: From Spur 201 to Yupon Street.
3. Karket-Street: From 300 feet .:est of Traffic Circle to
Stadium Drive.
4. Market Street: Fron Goose Creek Bridge to a ;point three
tenths 3!10ths) of a mile from intersection of narket
Street and '.Fest i ain Street.
5. Airhart Drive: From ':Jcodruff Street to Lynchburg Road.
5. East. James Street: From Bayou Drive - .Jest to 10th Street.
7. Park Street: From Garth road - '.Jest to intersection of
Decker �Dr.ive.
8 • H� ghwg1_Jq...�i4 5: Froy Davis load to Cedar Bayou Road.
Bayway Drive: Fror•: layto vn 'ler,.entary School to ;roes
Road. e 1LtL.C,��'
10. �w� Drive: From H 6-e- rive to Dec'.cer Drive.
11. 1.iassey_Tompkins, Road: From 1,1orth i,ain to i. cl""inney.
12. Bob Smith Road: Frori 1,41orth }.ain to i.,6:inney.
13. Tri -City Beach Road: From! 1.1=11andy House .'spart,-Lcnts
to South lir-pits.
1-1. Garth Road: From: Scenic Drive to =forth City lia,:its (Baker
Road).
15. iaissouriStreet: Fror,� Aew Jersey Street to Spur 201.
16. Spur 201: From Highway 1'4o. 146 to ;Jest =•.ain Street.
17. C-edar Bayou Road: From North l.iain Street to Highway
No. 146.
18. Cedar Bayou -Crosby Road: From Highway i`o. 146 to idorth
City limits.
( c) 45 t.',iles Per Hour kneed pones
1. Decker Drive: From 'M rhart tc ,icy li-its - 111orth.
2. Baker road: Fror, Saint Jai,.es House to Docker Drive.
3. Baker Road: Fror.-- ]Decker Drive to _'it,r li-.-;.its - :`est.
A. North i, ain Street: Frc:-. Sob Sr,:ith Load to �!orth City
limits.
(d) 50 1,1iles Per Hour Speed Zones
1. Hi hwa 1Jo. 146: Fror., Cedar Bayou :Load. to r%lorth ty
lir-its Cedar Bayou Bridge) .
2. H_ightfvay_ No. 146. Fror.: .''lexander Drive to beginning of
traffic exchange at Lec Drive.
3. Highway No. 146; Frori traffic exchange at Lee Drive to
Tunnel City limits.
:+ 20 miles per hour speed li,tit is established on all streets
adjacent to public schools unless otherwise designated.
Section 23: It shall be illegal for any person to 'Jay-iJal'c '
upon any street in a business area. "Business .Area" shall mean and
include business districts as defined in the State Uniforri Traffic
Code.
t1RTICLE IV: DRI .LNG REGULfATION5 RULES OF THE ROAD
Section 24: Drive on Right Side of Roadway_ : Exception: Upon
all roadways the driver of a vehicle shall drive upon the richt half
of the roadway, except as follows:
1. ihen overta'Ann and massing another vehicle proceeding .in
the sante direction under the rules governing such movec�ont.
2. ihen the right half of a roadr:,ay is closed to traffic while
under construction or re0air.
3. Upon a roadway divided into three (3) marked lanes for
traffic under the rules applicable thereon.
4. Upon a road).vay designated and signposted for one-way traffic.
Section 25: Passing Vehicles Proceeding in Opposite Direction:
Drivers of vehicles proceeding in oppasito directions shall pass each
other to the right and upon the roadways having width for not mare
than one line of traffic, in each direction, each driver shall give
the other at least one-half (1/2) of the main traveled portion.
Section 25: Overtaking a Vehicle on the Left: The folloviing
rules shall govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding
in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions and
special rules hereinafter stated:
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(a) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle pro-
ceeding in the sage direction shall pass to the left thereof at a
safe distance and shall not again drive to the right side of the
roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle.
(b) Lxcept when overtaking and passing on the right is per-
mitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give away to the
right in favor of the overtaking vehicle on audible signal and shall
not increase the speed of his vehicle until completely passed by the
overtaking vehicle.
Section 27: 'dhen Overtaking on the Right is Permitted;
(a) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the
right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
1. ',then the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make
a left turn.
2. Upon a one-way street, or upon any roadway on which
traffic is restricted to one direction of r.�ovement,
if the roadway is free from obstruction and of suf-
ficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles.
(b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another
vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting such move-
ment in safety. In no event shall such movement be made by driving
off the pavement or main traveled portion of the roadway.
Section 28: Limitations on Overtaking on the _Left: No vehicle
shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in
overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direc-
tion unless such left side is clearly visible, and is free of oncori-
ing traffic for sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking
and passing to be completely made without interferring with any
vehicle overtaken. In every event the overtaking vehicle must return
to the right hand side of the roadway before coming within one hundred
feet of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.
Section 29: Further Limitations on Driving to Left of Roadwa
(a) No vehicle shall, at any tire, be driven to the left side
of the roadway under the folloviing conditions:
1. '.there sight restriction is such that the section of
highway being traversed lies within a no -;gassing zone,
as determined and marked in accordance with Section 30
herein.
2. llhen approaching within one hundred feet of any bridge,
viaduct or tunnel.
3. ilithin one hundred feet of an intersection.
(b) The foregoing limitations shall not apply to one-way road-
ways.
Section 30: No PassinyZone: The City Council of the vitt' of
Baytown is hereby authorized to determine, by resolution, those por-
tions of any highways in the City limits of the City of Baytown where
overtaking and passing or driving on the left side of the roadway
would be especially hazardous and may, by appropriate signs or mark-
ings on the roadway, indicate the beginning and end of such zones and,
when such signs or markings are in place and clearly visible to any
ordinarily observant person, every driver of a vehicle shall obey the
directions thereof.
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Sectir)n 31: One --'.Jay Roadways and RotaryTraffic Islands:
(a) The City :,cunci 1 of the amity of Bayto,.•m --.ay designate any
highvJay or any separate roadc°,ay, under its jurisdiction, for
traffic and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(b) Upon a roadway designated and signposted for ore- ray traf-
fic the driver of a vehicle shall drive only in the direction desig-
nated.
(c) The driver of a vehicle ;gassing around a rotary traffic
island shall drive only to the right of such island.
(d) The City � ;ncil of the :moi ty of Baytown hereby designates
the following streets as one -,,::ay i%,ith vehicular traffic ricving as
follows on such streets:
1. ,shbel Street: forth from its intersection :vi.th '.ost
Gulf Street to its intersection with '.lest Sterling Street.
2. Gaillard Street: South fror:� its intersection �-aith .fest
Sterling Street to its intersection wittl ost Gulf Street.
3. Jones Street: South from, its intersection with.lest
Pearce Street to its intersection ���.�i th .:est Gulf Street,
and -forth from its intersection %,,,ith .lest Pearce Street
to its intersection with .Jest Defee street.
4. :Jest Defee Street: _:ast from its intersection t;rith 1�'orth
Pruett Street to its intersection 1,,ith 1,'orth
Street.
5. `.Jest Sterling Street: lest fror, its intersection with
;•forth Comr.-erce Street to its intersection ^ri th north .^ ,'
Street.
a.
King Street: South fro -I its intersection :vith :est
Street to its intersection with holster Street.
7. Oklahoma Street: north frcr;. its intersection .jith '.li sconsi
Street to its intersection with .innesota Street.
S. Colorado Street: South from;: its intersection ,ith inneso-
ta Street to its intersection with lisconsin Street.
9. i"# 'lia Street: North frog,,: its intersection with 1':arl.et
Street to its intersection with cedar Street.
10. Denby Street: Last from its intersection with Pruitt Street
to its intersection with i.assey "J'tre4t.
11. Sasey Street: .ast fror,, its intersection with Pruett Street
to its intersection with .:assey Street.
12. '.asse,r Street: South frog:} its intersection ,.jjith Denby Street
to its intersection ti•iith stn Street.
Section 32: Driving on Roadways i.aned for Traffic: .fhenever
an;, roadway has been divided into ti -,,,o or rr.ore clearly Harked lanes for
traffic, the following rules, in addition to all others consistent
herewith, shall apply:
(a) The driver of a vehicle shall drive as nearly as practical
entirely within a single lane and shall not be moved from such lane
until the driver has first ascertained that such movement can be made
with safety.
(b) Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes, the driver
of a vehicle shall not drive in the center lane except when overta,cing
and passing another vehicle a,ihere the road is clearly visible and such
center lane is clear of traffic t,Jithin a safe distance, or in prepara-
tion for a left turn or where center lane is at the time exclusively
allocated to traffic moving in the direction the vehicle is proceeding
and is signposted to give notice of such allocation.
(c) Official signs may be erected directing slot%, T.-,oving traffic
to use a designated lane or designating those lanes to be used for
traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center of
the roadway and drivers of vehicles shall obey the direction of every
such sign.
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Section 33: Following Too Closely_: The driver of a motor
vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reason-
able and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles
and the traffic upon and conditions of the highway.
Section 34: Dr_ivinq on Divided Highways: Jhenever any high-
way has been divided into two roadways by leaving an intervening
space or by a physical barrier or a clearly indicated driving sec-
tion so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle
shall be driven only upon the right-hand side of the roadway and no
vehicle shall be driven over, across or within any such dividing
space, barrier or section, except through an opening in such physi-
cal barrier or dividing section or space at a crossover or inter-
section established by public authority.
ARTICLE V. TURNING itND STARTING AND SIGNid-S
ON STOPPING AND TURNING
Section 35: Ftieg_u_ired Position and Method of Turning at Inter-
sections: The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an inter-
section shall do so as follows:
(a) Both the approach for right turn and a right turn shall
be made as close as practical to the right-hand curb or edge of the
roadway.
(b) Approach for a left turn from a two-way street into a
two-vray street shall be made in that portion of the right half of
the roadway nearest the centerline thereof and after entering the
intersection the left turn shall be made so as to leave the inter-
section to the right of the center line of the roadway being entered.
(c) Approach for a left turn from a two-way street into a one-
way street shall be made in that portion of the right half of the
roadway nearest the center line where it enters the intersection.
A left turn from a one --way street shall be made by entering the in-
tersection as close as practical to the left curb or edge of the
roadway by which the intersection is entered and by passing to the
right of the center line of the street being entered upon leaving
the intersection.
(d) .!here both streets or roadways are one-way, both the ap-
proach for a left turn and a left turn shall be made as close as
practical to the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(e) The Cit,, Engineer, in cooperation with the Police Depart-
ment, may cause markers,buttons or signs to be placed within or ad-
jacent to intersections and thereby require and direct that a differ-
ent course from that specified in this ordinance be traveled by
vehicles turning at an intersection, and when markers, buttons or
signs are so placed no driver of a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at
an intersection other than as directed and required by such markers,
buttons or signs.
Section 36: Starting Parked Vehicles: No person shall start
a vehicle which is stopped, standing or parked, unless and until
such movement can be made with safety.
Section 37: TurningMovements and Required Signals:
(a) No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless
the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway, as required in
Section 35, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway
or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or
left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with
safety. No person shall so turn any vehicle without giving an appro-
priate signal in the manner hereinafter provided and in the event no
other traffic may be affected by such movement.
(b) A signal of intention to turn right or left, when required,
shall be given continuously during not less than the last one hundred
feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.
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a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner
provided herein to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear
when there is opportunity to give such signal.
Section 33: Siqnals by Hand and;`16rrrj or Signal Device: Any
stop or turn signal, when required herein, shall be given either by
means of the hand and arm or by a signal lamp or lamps or mechanical
signal device of a type approved by the Texas Department of Public
Safety, but when a vehicle is so constructed or loaded that a hand
and arm signal would not be visible both to the front and rear of such
vehicle, then, said signals must be given by such lamp or lamps or
signal device.
Section 39: t1ethod of Givinq Hand and firm Signals: All
signals herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from
the left side of the vehicle, in the follovjinn runner and such sig-
nals shall indicate as follows:
1. Left Turn: Hand and arm extended horizontally.
2. Right Turn: Hand and arm extended upward.
3. Stop or Decreased Speed: Hand and arm extended
downward.
Section 40: Limitations op. Turning_ Around:
(a) It shall be unlavjf ul for the operator of any vehicle to
turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless
such movement can be made in safety and without backing or otherwise
interfering with other traffic.
(b) A complete turn shall not be made at any intersection of
any two streets or upon any street or alley in the City of Bayto�,rn
where the City Council may determine that it is unsafe to make a
complete turn and shall have posted at such place, in the street or
alley, a sign showing that a complete turn is prohibited.
Section 41: Emerging FromAlle or Private Driveway, The
operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building,
shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk
or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway.
Section 42: Vehicles Shall moot Be Driven on the Sidewalk:
The operator of a vehicle shall not drive or part: said vehicle with-
in any sidevjalk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
;,RTI'CL VI. ``.u:�li)� NT:�, i :LL S DRIVI dG, STI�RTIIJG
PARKED VEHICLES
Section 43: Immediate Report of Accident:
(a) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting
in injury to or death of any person, or property damage to an appar-
ent extent of X25.00 or more, shall immediately by the quickest
means of communication, either verbal or written, give notice of such
accident to the Police Department if such accident occurs within the
i"i ty of Baytown.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the driver or any other person
to remove such vehicle from the scene of the accident until author-
ized to do so by a police officer of the Police Department of this
City; provided, however, that the foregoing small not apply if there
exists or arises a duty on the part of such driver or other persons
in control of such vehicle to use said vehicle in carrying any per-
son injured in said accident to a physician or surgeon for medical
or surgical treatment.
(c) The Police Department of this City, acting by an officer
of the traffic division or the Chief of Police, may require any driv-
er of a vehicle involved in an accident of which report must be made,
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as provided in this Section, to make supplemental oral or written
report whenever the original report is found to be insufficient, or
inadequate in the opinion of such officer, and may require witnesses
of accidents to render reports to said department.
(d) -very law enforcement officer, who in the regular course of
duty investigates a motor vehicle accident of which report rust be
made, as required in this Section, either at the time of and at the
scene of the accident or thereafter by interviewing participants or
witnesses shall, within twenty-four hours after completing such in-
vestigation, forward a written report of such accident to the Traffic
Division of the Police Department of this -ity. every such accident
report shall be made on the appropriate form provided by the Traffic
Division and shall contain all of the information required therein
unless not available. Such reports shall be without prejudice to the
officer so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the
Police Department and the Sity Traffic engineer.
Section 44: L.Vhen Driver_ Unable to Report: .Jhenever the driver
of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident
report and another occupant in the vehicle, at the time of the acci-
dent, is capable of making a report, such occupant shall make or cause
to be made said report.
Section 45: Driver of_Wrecker Trucks Not to Interfere :lith
Police Investigation of Accidents: It shall be unlaviful for the
driver or any person in charge of any vehicle equipped with a crane,
hoist, winch or towing device, who has answered a call to or is at-
tending the scene of any collision or accident of one or none veh vls
on any highway in this City, to remove or atter:pt to remove any
vehicle involved in such collision or accident, or in any way inter-
fere with or change the position of any such vehicle, except upon
authority or direction and in the presence of a police officer of
this City, unless such change is made or atte:rpted for the purpose of
releasing a person or persons imprisoned within or under such vehicle
involved in such collision or accident, provided further, that it
shall be unlawful for the driver, or person in charge of any vehicle
equipped with a crane, hoist, winch or towing device to remove any
vehicle from the scene of accident or collision �-Athcut the consent cf
the owner of the vehicle, unless directed by a police officer to re-
move such vehicle as a public safety measure or for the protection of
private property.
Section 46: Accident InvolvingDamageto Vehicle: The driver
of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to a ve-
hicle which is driven by any person shall irimediately stop such
vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible
but shall forthwith return to and in every event ren --gain at the scene
of such accident until he has given his name, address and the regis-
tration number of the vehicle he is driving and shall, upon request
and if available, exhibit his operator s, cor.-:mercial operator's or
chauffeur's license to the driver or occupant of any vehicle collided
with.
Section 47: Duty Upon Strikinq Unattended Vehicle; The driver
of any vehicle k^Ihich collides with and damages any vehicle which is
unattended, shall immediately stop and shall then and there either
.locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle, of the nar3e
and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle striking the un-
attended vehicle or shall leave, in a conspicuous place in or secure-
ly attached to and plainly visible, a written notice giving the name
and address of the driver and of the owner of the vehicle doing the
striking and any statement of the circumstances and shall rake a re-
port of such accident when and as required in Section 43 hereof.
Section 48: Dut U on Strikipq Fixtures Upon a ! w�: The
driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in dam-
age to fixtures legally upon or adjacent to a highway, shall take
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reasonable.steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge
of such property of such fact and of his name and address and of the
registration number of the vehicle he is driving and shall, upon
request and if available, exhibit his operator's, commercial opera-
tor's or chauffeur's license, and shall make report of such accident
when and as required in Section 43 hereof.
section -49: Garages to Keep Records ,& Report Damaged Vehicles:
The person in charge of any garage or repair shop shall keep a recd"
of all damaged vehicles which show evidence of having been involved
in an accident or wreck or struck by bullets. This record shall be
available for police inspection and shall show the name of the drive--,-
or
riveror person in charge of the vehicle, the license number, model and
type of same, a description of the damage of vehicle and the date
brought in for repair.
Section 50: Reckless Driving: Every person who drives any
vehicle in wilfuli or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of
others or without due caution or circumspection, and at a speed or
in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger a person or
property, shall be guilty of reckless _'.riving.
ARTICLE VII - TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS
Section 51: Traffic Control Signal Legend: Whenever traffic
is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting the words "GO",
"CAUTION" or "STOP" or exhibiting different colored lights success-
ively one at a time, or with arrows, the following colors only shat'
be used and said terms and lights shall indicate and apply to drive-,-
of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
(a) Green, alone or "GO."
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal, except when
prohibited under the provisions of this ordinance,
may proceed straight through or turn right or left
unless a sign at such place prohibits either such
turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles
turning right or left, shall yield the right of way
to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully with-
in the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the
time such signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across
the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(b) Yellow, alone or "CAUTION' when shown following the green
or "GO" signal.
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned
that the red or "STOP' signal will be exhibited im-
mediately thereafter and such vehicular traffic shall
not enter or be crossing the intersection when the
red or "STOP" signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing such signal are thereby advised
there is insufficient time to cross the roadway, and
any pedestrian then starting to cross shall yield the
right of way to all vehicles.
(c) Red, alone or "STOP."
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop be-
fore entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection or, if none, before entering the inter-
section and shall remain standing until green or
"GO" is shown alone.
2. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the
roadway unless he can do so safely and without inter --
f erring with any vehicular traffic.
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c(e) In the event ar. cffici<.y on,;r l vin r Mavis
is erected and r}aintained at a place other than intersections, the
provisions of this section shall he applicable except as to those
provisions which, by their nature, can have no application. Any
stop required shall be made at a sign or r.,�arking on the pavement
indicating where the stop shall be rade, but in the absence of any
such sign or marling the stop shall be .jade at the signal.
Section 52: Pedestrian Walk & Wait Signals: `.dhenever special
pedestrian signals exhibiting the word �`JALKI' or '':11'�IT` are in place,
such signals shall indicate as follows:
(a) ,talk: Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across
the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the
right of way by the drivers of all vehicles.
(.)) ',.'Jait: No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in
the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has partially
completed his crossing on the wall: signal shall proceed to a side-
walk or safety island �,.hile the wait signal is showing.
Section 53: Flash_inqS.ignals: '.henever flashing red or yel-
low signals are used they shall require obedience by vehicular
traffic as follows:
1. Flashing iced (Stop Signal): .ihen a red lens is
illuminated by rapid intermittent flashes, driv-
ers of vehicles shall stop before entering the
nearest crossway- at an intersection or at a
li •,it line when r::ar}ced and the right to proceed
shall be subject to the rules applicable after
making a stop at a stop sign.
2. FlashingYellow (Caution Signal)::' en a yellow
lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes,
drivers of vehicles may proceed through the inter-
section or past such signal only with caution.
Section 54: Display of Unauthorized Signals or Markin s:
(a) i,3o person shall place, maintain or display upon or in
view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal or marking or de-
vice or railroad sign or signal �=hick attempts to direct the move-
ment of traffic, or which hides Burr vier of iiiterfer.,s with the
effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any rail-
road sign or signal, and no person shall place or maintain nor shall
any public authority permit upon any highiay any traffic sign or
signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not
be deemed to Prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent
to highways or signs having useful directional inforc;ation and of
a type that cannot be mistal�en for official signs.,
(b) Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance and the Chief of Police is hereby
empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without
notice.
Section 55: Interference with Ufficial. Traffic Control De-
vices or Railroad Signs or Signals: leo person shall, f,aithout law-
ful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock:
down or remove any official traffic control device or any railroad
sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or
any part thereof.
1;RTICLE VIII - PEDESTRIl NS ' RIGHTS AND DUTIES
Section 56: Pedestrians Subject_to Traffic Regulations:
(a) Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals
at intersections, as provided in this ordinance, but at all other
;daces pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall 'be
subject to the restrictions stated in this article.
(,b) Pedestrians shall strictly comply with the directions
of all official traffic control signals in the amity of Bayto,^.,n and
it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross any street or road-
way in the fire limits of the --ity of Baytoirn except in a designated
crosswalk.
Section 57: Pedestrians'_Right of Way in Crosswalks:
(a) .!hen traffic control signals are not in place or not in
operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way,
sloiuing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian
crossing the roa&!ay ,`, ithin a cross,%jallc +:when the pedestrian is upon
the half of the roaet•:ay t•ahich the vehicle is traveling, or k%then the
pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the
roadway as to be in danger, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave
a curb or other place of safety and �,.al'c or run into the path of a
vehicle which is so close that it is iripossible for the driver to
yield.
( b) .lhenever any vehicle is stopped at a marled crossway.
or at any unmarked crosswalk, at an intersection to per --it a pedes -
urian to cross the roadway, the driver of any vehicle approaching
from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stepped. vehicle.
Section 58: Between adjacent intersections at �-ihich traffic
control signals are in operation pedestrians shall not cross at any
place except in a marked crossvralk.
Section 59: Drivers to exercise Due Care: :•lot:^liths tan di ng
the foregoing provisions of this article, every driver of a vehicle
shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon
any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when neces-
sary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any chile:
or any confused or incapacitated person upon a roadway.
Section 60: Pedestrians on Roadways:
(a) `.!here sidewal;.s are provided it shall be unlawful for
any pedestrian to wal'c alone and upon an adjacent roa&tay.
(b) .!here sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian vialking
along and upon a highway shall, when possible, 1allti only on the left
side of the roadway, or its shoulder fac_inq traffic �°Jhich ;;lay ap-
proach from the opposite direction.
(c) Flo person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of
soliciting a ride from, the driver of any vehicle.
ARTICLE: IX - PARKING RLGULATICNS
Section 61: Parallel Parking: it shall be unlawful to pari:
any character cf vehicle upon any street, except as ,provided in this
ordinance, in any other manner than that, the said vehicle shall be
parallel with the street upon t°!hi.ch it is pared and upon the right
side thereof, determined by the ,,jay said vehicle is headed, and
parked so that the wheels on the right side of said vehicle shall
be within eighteen (1!R") inches of the curb or edge of the roadway.
Section 62: Angle Parking.: It shall be lawful to park vehi-
cles at an angle not neater than 4�5 degrees to the line of traffic
at such places in the City of Baytown as the City Council shall, by
resolution, determine that angle par!cing shall be permitted and
shall cause the same to be marked or signed; and in all places where
sidewalks have been set back and provisions made for parking vehicles
across or inside of the usual curb line on any street in the City of
Baytot,jn. In leaving said angle parking space, cars shall not be
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packed Int i e trc�'.i' 1C iai.e ail y" ilrl_ e3' lc it 11 'u Sc 'y
straightened out and faced in the proper direction for traffic
bets^leen said space and center of the street.
Section 63: 'Ie person shall allow, suffer or permit any
vehicle, registered in his na,:le, to stand or be parked in any street
in the 3ity of Baytw,1n, in vic_:lati on of any `.f the ordinances cf
this City regulating the standing or parking of vehicles.
Section 6.4: RestrictedPar!LiD_q:
( a) No person shall stop, stand or pax': a vehicle except
when necessary to avoid conflict V;ith other traffic or in compliance
with law or directions of a police officer or traffic control device,
in any of the following places:
1. On a sidevlalk.
2. in front of a public or private drive'°aay.
3. .Jithin an intcrsocti on.
4. ,.Jithin fifteen (15') feet of a fire hydrant.
5. Gn a crosswalk.
6. '.Jithin ti•fenty (201) feet of a crossway. at an
intersection.
7. 'AJithin thirty (30 ) feet upon the approach of
any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic con-
trol signal located at the side of the road:jay.
n. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or
�rithin thirty (301) feet of points on the curb
immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone,
unless the traffic authority indicates a differ-
erit length by signs or
9. ?ithin fifty (501) feet of the nearest rail of a
railroad crossing
10. .Ji.thin t,,venty (201) feet of the drivek.-!ay entrance
to any fire station and on the side of a street
opposite the entrance to any fire station within
seventy-five (7b') feet of said entrance (when
properly signposted).
11. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or
obstruction !,ahen stopping, standing or parking
viould -obstruct traffic.
12. On the roa&,,ay side of any vehicle stopped or
parked at the edge or curb of a street.
13. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon
a highv-fay or within a highway tunnel.
14. �t any place vlhere official signs prohibit stopping.
15. In an alley.
person shall rove a vehicle,nc.t ,_a`.lfully under his con-
trol, into any such prohibited area or a�fay from a curb such dis-
tance as is unlawful.
ARTICLE X - SPECIAL STOPS Rr{`UIRED
Section 65: Authority to Erect Stop Signs: There may be in-
stalled at such points or. streets and avenues of the pity of bay -
town, as may be directed by the City Council, appropriate signs
notifying drivers of vehicles to coj:�e to a full. stop. Such signs,
devices or markers are to bear the word !11-"T0P` and to be located in
such position and to be provided with letters of a size to be clear-
ly legi''Dle fror=; a distance of at lust one hundred (1001) feet along
the street upon �rlhich the sign is placed. ,ll such signs shall be
illuminated at night or so placed as to be illuminated by street
lights or by the headlights of approaching i,otor vehicles. '.Jhenever
any such sign has been created it shall be unlawful for the driver
or operator of any vehicle to fail to stop in obedience thereto.
The opright
of any vehicle �'1ho has come to a full stop, as required
above, shall be subject to the usual of i%,ay prescribed by lava.
Section 66: Emerging from .alley__ or Private Driveway: The dri-
ver of a vehicle emerging from: an allay, driveway or building shall
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stop such vehicle li i.`�`e( is ll ,'J y pl'" 3r tU url'vii -�i {L'
onto the sidevialk area extending across array alleyway, yielding to
the right of way to any pedestrian =:s r. ay �)e necessary to avoir
collision and, upcn entering the roadway, shall yield t'ie right of
::,ay to all vehicles approchi.ng on said rcadti°!ay.
Section 57: Stop ',Then Traffic_ Obstructed: o driver shall
enter an intersocti_on cr a r:,ar'_sd cressz°fal'..' _jnlE�ss there is 51-111 ic-
i ont s;
a r�u fler cat-ou , _�y-� _ s ..r i;-�il dcwr_ �, r v -v.. �l ._
on a high'�•Jay.
The ergine and '7 ;i�:'er i?tBCi'�aniS;:, cf Gvc'r1r r.:�tur vehC1C"
shall he so equipped and a.di Ist'd as to prevent the escape of exces-
sive furies Cr
Section_ 75: Driving Through Funeral__ or Other Procession: sic
driver of a vehicleshall drive het5 e� n the vehicles ccr::��ri sir�c� a
funeral or other authori zed procession vJh_le the,, are in notion
and kthen such vehicles are conspicuously designated, as recluirecI
in this ordinance.Thi Q=r-s '�={y�'x,`—� t intersections
1lar-fa--traffi r s or IDclice
oars.
Section 76: Drivers in a Procession: teach dri-ver in a fun-
eral or other procession shall drive as near to the right hanc- ec e
of the roadt.Jay as practical andshall follcv.' the vehicle aheaci as
closely as is ;practical and. safe.
Section 77: Funeral Processions to he _ �dentz fied: funer-
al cor:posed of a procession of vOh'i cles ;hall ','e io'cntified. as
such by the c'isplay l_1'pon the of each vehicle of a pe :pant
or other identi=fying i=ns" (Dnf a or )y such i.'Zer :ethCd as --ay be
deterr,i ned and des i gnated ;)y the traffic di',.risi c'n.
Section 7S: ',Jhen Pcrn?its x3e- aired for Parades and Processions:
No funeral, pro cession or parade containing t :�o hundred or r -:ore
persons or fifty or ::lore vehicles, excepting the fcrces of the United
States ;,rr:,y or 118vy, the .-:ili Lary forces of this ;;tate, and forces
of the Poli ce and Fire Departr:`elft, SI -'all cccu�7y, :arch, or ,proceed
along any street except in accordance ,lith a perr_,it issued '_y the
3hief of
Voice and. -D.-accorc.ance with such ether rogula cions as are
set forth herein which may apply.
Section 79: Lir;;itations cn Bac'cing : fhe driver of a vehicle
shall not back the sar:',c unless such r:,overient can be r::ade �•Jith reason-
able safety and t•fithou t i nterfOrrin 9 Wi th other traff i c.
Section E',O: Riding on 1--o_torcycles: ;person operating a
motorcycle shal_1 nod ri=de other than upon the permanent and regular
seat attached thereto or carry any other person nor shall any other
person ride upon such motorcycle other than upon a fir,-ly attached
seat to the rear or side cf the operator.
30Cildii l: v1ii1C!�i�ia tC,-�Dy_�_kl�', �feh�LlC': ;iny person r_ ding
upon any 'Acycle, otOrC'yCle, coaster, Sled, roller s.:ates or an'!
toy vehicle shall not attach the sane or hir.self to any r;cving
vehicle upon any roadvJay in the „i ty of Laytol'M.
Section_ 92: Pedestri ansSo_lic_itinC� �idc5: .� t shall �e Ianlak'?-
ful for any ;person to stand in a road:;ay for the purpose of solicit-
ing a ride fron'. the operator of any private vA} icl ; .
Section ''3: Blind Pedestrians:
(a) For the purpose of preventing traffic accidents on the
public streets of the City of 33ytuV!n, it shall be unla'."ful for
any person, except persons Aholly or ;partially blind, to carry or
use, on the pu'olic streets of the . ity of Paytc�-Jn, any care or k�,Jal:-
ing stick :rhich is 5.%,hi to ir, color or '.shite 11-Jith red end. ., cane
or walking stir'.; ray '.De used cn the streets ane other pu'Hic placos
of the City of Baytour, py a parson vJholly or partially blind, as
a rears of protecting hir.: or her fro,. traffic accidents and for the
purpose of identifying hi.: or her kpy drivers of vehicles and opera-
tors of motor driven vehicles and pedestrians t-Jith vrhor- such ,person
may core in contact on said streets and pui,,lic places.
(b) .any driver of a vehicle, operator of a rotor driven
vehicle, or pedestrian, .rho apnroaches or cares in contact vJith a
person wholly or partially blind and carryii, j a cane or
stick white in color, or white vli_th red end, shall ir.z:;ediately
come to a full stop and take such other precautions, before pro-
ceeding, as may be necessary to avoid accident or injury to the
person carrying such cane or walking stick.
(c) Any person, other than a person wholly or partially blind,
who shall carry a cane or walking stick white in color or white
with red end, or whc shall fail to corse to a full stop when approach-
ing or coring in contact with a person vrholly or partially blind
and carrying a walking stick .vhite in color or white with red end,
or who shall fail to take such precautions before proceeding as
may be necessary to avoid accident or injury to a person carrying
a cane or walking stick, white in color or white v)ith red end,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 54: Drivin Through Gasoline Station: it shall be
unlawful for any person, operating an automobile or other gasoline
propelled vehicle,to drive same into or through any garage or gasol-
ine station, in the City of BaytOWn, without cor-Ang to a full stop
while in such garage or gasoline station.
Section 85: Dis la ince f dvertising: It shall be unlawful for
anyone to operate any vehicle on any street within the corporate
limits of the City of Baytown for the primary purpose of display-
ing advertising.
Section 36: 0 enin of Vehicle _Doors: It shall be unlawful
for the owner, operator or any other person to open the door of a
vehicle or to step from a parked vehicle into a roadway or side-
walk in such a manner as to interfere vrith or impede the progress
of any vehicle or pedestrian.
Section 87: Repealing Clause: all ordinances or parts of
ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are here-
by repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to
the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this
ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and
governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3-J: Savings Clause: If any provision, exception,
section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance, or the application of saEie to any person or set of cir-
cumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional, void
or invalid, such invalidity shall not effect the remaining provi-
sions of this ordinance or their application to other persons or
sets of circumstances and, to this end, all provisions of this
ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 89: Penalty: -any person, firm or corporation violat-
ing any provision of this ordinance or failing to observe any pro-
vision hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,upon con-
viction, shall be fined in any sum not less than Ten (x10.00) Dol-
lars and not more than Two Hundred 0200.00) Dollars.
Section 90: Lffective Date: This ordinance shall take effect
from and after ten10 days from its passage by the City Council.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing
the caption of this ordinance to be published in the official news-
paper of the City of Baytown, at least twice within ten days after
the passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, RLAD and PAS -,ED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this nth day of August, 1965.
ATT (-ST: Se rn rCravey, i.,ayor
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Ldna Oliver, City clerk
APPROV-D:
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