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ORDINANCE NO. 2752
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18, "MOTOR VEHICLES AND
TRAFFIC," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN BY THE AMENDMENT OF SECTION 18 -54, REMOVAL OF
TRAFFIC HAZARDS; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING
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 1: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Baytown is hereby amended by the repeal of Chapter 18,
"Motor Vehicles and Traffic," Section 18 -54, as presently
constituted and by substituting in its place a new Section
18 -54 which shall read as follows:
Sec. 18 -54. Removal of traffic hazards.
Any police officer who .shall find a vehicle, boat, structure,
object, substance, or material stopped or resting upon a
public street or public traffic area which in the opinion of
the officer poses a particular hazard to the movement of
traffic because of its proximity to or position upon a
roadway, the lighting or weather conditions, its visibility
or the density of traffic, or the nature of the traffic
movement around or across such hazard, is authorized to
remove or cause the same to be removed.
Section 2: 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repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only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 3: If any provision, section, exception, sub-
section, 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 valid-
ity of the remaining provisions of'this ordinance or their
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s application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to
this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown on this day
of 1979.
E KETT O. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
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EYLEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
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APPROVED:
T BOUNDS, City Attorney.
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