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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND ROUTING MOTOR VEHICLES
TRANSPORTING FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS IN EXCESS OF FOURTEEN
HUNDRED (1400) GALLONS WITHIN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
ROUTING THRU TRAFFIC AND PROHIBITING PARKING OF SAID
VEHICLES UNLESS UNLOADING, PROVIDING FOR PENALTY AND
DECLARING EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED that it shall be unlawful and an offense for the driver of a
motor vehicle transporting flammable liquids in excess of fourteen hundred
(1400) gallons to travel into or through the City of Georgetown except in
the designated areas as follows:
For East-West Traffic:
(1) University Avenue from Interstate 35 to Timber Street Intersection.
(2) 7th Street from Timber Street Intersection to Holly Street
Intersection.
(3) West 4th Street (400 Block).
(4) East 4th Street (East of Holly Street.
For North-South Traffic:
(1) Timber Street lying North of University Avenue
(2) Holly Street lying North of 7th Street
All operators of trucks used transporting flammable liquids in excess of
fourteen hundred (1400) gallons going by or through Georgetown, without stop-
ping to unload, shall use Interstate Highway 35 (for North & South traffic)
and State Highway 29 (for East & West traffic) and no other routes. No
operator of such a truck hauling in excess of fourteen hundred (1400) gallons
of flammable liquid shall park within the corporate limits of the City of
Georgetown when in the process of unloading, except at bulk storage facilities.
Any person, firm or corporation violating this ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be penalized by
a fine of not more than $200.00, and each thirty (30) minute period that such
violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
The fact that the passage of this ordinance is of great public importance
to immediately put into force the aforesaid fire control for the protection
of the lives, health, property and welfare of the citizens of the City of
Georgetown and thereby creates a public emergency and necessity and therefore
this Ordinance shall take effect from and after this reading and its passage
and adoption.
READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED by unanimou
A.D., 1966.
ATTEST:
Claud ads, City S.cretary
APPROVED:
Joe McMaster, City Attorney