Ordinance No. 1,154ORDINANCE NO. 1154
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, BY AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 18, MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, BY
AMENDING SECTION 18 -122.1 THEREOF SO AS TO REPEAL THE PROVISIONS OF
SUCH SECITON AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED AND TO SUBSTITUTE IN ITS PLACE
THE PROVISIONS OF A NEW SECTION SETTING OUT THE AREAS STREETS OR
PORTIONS OF STREETS LYING WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, WHICH CONSTITUTE TWO (2) HOUR TIME LIMIT PARKING ZONES AS
COMTEMPLATED BY SECTION 18 -122.1 OF THE BAYTOWN CODE OF ORDINANCES;
PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section l: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown, Texas,
is hereby amended by amending Chapter 18, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, by re-
pealing Section 18 -122.1 thereof, and the same to cease to have force and
effect from and after the effective date of this ordinance.
Section 2: That the Code of Ordinances, herein is hereby amended by
adding thereto a new Section 18- 122.1, Designation of two -hour parking limit
zones, in Chapter 18, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, which shall read as follows,
to -wi t:
Section 18- 122.1. Designation of two -hour parking limit zones.
Texas Avenue from Whiting Street to First Street.
Pearce Street from Whiting Street to Commerce Street.
Defee Street from Pruett Street to Commerce Street, except
for the first three parking places on the north side of
Defee Street east of the intersection of Defee Street
and Gaillard Street.
Commerce Street from Pearce Street to Defee Street.
Ashbel Street from Pearce Street to Defee Street.
Gaillard Street from Pearce Street to Defee Street, except for
the first seven (7) parking places on the ease side of Gaillard
Street and Defee Street.
Jones Street from Pearce Street to Defee Street.
Main Street from Pearce Street to Defee Street.
The time limits pertaining to the above described time -limit parking
zones shall apply every day between the hours of eight (8) o'clock a.m. and
six (6) o'clock p.m., except Sundays and legal holidays observed by the City.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this or-
dinance for any person; (a) to permit any vehicle registered in the name of or
operated by such person to be parked beyond the period of legal parking es-
tablished in any of the designated time -limit parking zones, (b) to park any
vehicle across any line or marking of a time -limit parking zone so as not to
be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings, (c) To deface
or remove or otherwise tamper with any sign or marking designating an area
as a time - parking zone.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions
of this section pertaining to the over -time parking shall be deemed guilty of
an offense and shall be punished by a fine of four dollars ($4.00). If the
fine is paid in the Municipal Court on or before ten (10) days from the date of
the ticket, a Two Dollar ($2.00) discount shall be allowed. If the fine is not
paid after the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of the ticket, a capias
may be issued, and the violator may be required to post a bond of up to Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
Section 3: Repealing Clause: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby 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 4: Savings Clause: If any provision, exception, section,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the
application of same to any person or set of circumstances shall for any reason
be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect
the validity of the remaining provisions 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 5: Effective Date: This ordinances shall take effect from
and after ten (10) days from its adoption by the City Council of the City
of Baytown, Texas. The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof
by causing the caption of this ordinance to be published in the official
newspaper of the City of Baytown at least twice within ten days after its
passage.
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INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, on this 18th day of January 1972.
C. L- 0
EN WALKER, Mayor "
ATTEST:
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ED-RAVOLIVER, City Clerk
APPROVED:
NEEL RICH CRUSON, City Attorney
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