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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0086_8484 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN TEXAS, AMENDING THAT CERTAIN ORDINANCE OF SAID CITY CREATING PARKING ZONES, AND REGULATING PARKING IN SAID ZONES; WHICH SAID ORDINANCE WAS PASSED AND APPROVED ON THE 13th DAY OF JANUARY 1947, AND IS COPIED IN COLLECTED ORDINANCES AS UNDER MOTOR VEHICLE LANTS, (J) OF SECTION 14, THEREOF: BY ADDING TO THE SAID " PARKING ZONE " ORDINANCE., THE PRO+ VISIONS HEREIN SET OUT, THAT AN EMERGENCY IS HERE DE- CLARED, AUTHORIZING SUSPENSION OF RULES REQUIRING THREE READINGS AT THREE SEPARATE MEETINGS OF COUNCIL, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN TEXASs That the ordinance of the said City, that the "Parking Zone" passed and approved on the 13th, day of January 1947, and that is copied into " COLLECTED ORDINAIICES", in sub -division (J) of section 14, of Motor Vehicle Laws thereof, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following provisions, to writs THAT THE ENTIRE length of Austin Avenue, is placed in the Parking Zone, said Parking Zone law shall apply to all of said street. That it shall be unlawful, to at any time, park any character of vehicle, on that part of said Austin Avenue, beginning at the north end of the North San Gabriel River Bridge, and extending to the south end of the South San Gabriel River Bridge. That on all other portions of the said Austin Avenue, it shall be un- lawful to park any vehicle, upon the paved portion thereof, unless the said ve- hicle is parked parallel with and within twenty-four (24) inches from the curb, or outer edge of the pavement; provided however, that upon the east side of the said Street, and upon that portion thereof, lying between 7th, and 8th, streets, and adjacent to the Court House Square, vehicles shall be parked at an angle to the curb, and within the lines indicating the parking spaces. --'- That subject to the above provisions, and in conformity thereto, the City may at any time, and at any place mark off, and establish parking spaces, on said street, adjacent to the curbs thereof, and when said parking spaces are so marked and established, it shall be unlawful to park, near thereto, at a place other than in such parking space* 7 That when spaces for parallel parking have been marked off and estab- lished, the City may ereot in the curb, and adjacent thereto, the parking meter that is described and established in the ordinance that is here being amended= and that when such parking meters have been so erected, any parking in the space adjacent thereto shall be governed by the ordinance that is here being amended, and by the provisions hereof. That all parking meters heretofore erected, and all parking meters may hereafter be erected under the provisions of the said ordinance being here amended, and under this amendment thereto, shall be presumed,to be accurate and correct; and that when any vehicle is parked in a parking space, adjacent to any such meter, and such meter does not then and there indicate that the proper coin has been placed in the said meter, it shall be presumed that such vehicle is then and there unlawfully parked. That the penalty for overtime parking in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter shall be a fine in any sum not to excede ($10.00) ten dollars. That the penalty of any other manner of unlawful"parking, shall be t fine in sum not less than ten ($10.00) dollars and not more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars. The fact that prompt provisions should be made for parallel parking on Austin Avenue, creates an emergency, requiring that the rules with reference to the reading of an ordinance at three separate meetings before passage should be suspended, and the same are here suspended and this ordinance is here and now finally passed. Passed and approved on this the 10th, day of January A.D.1955- Attests C ty Clerks- City y of Goorg` e=o►m, Texas.