HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 7-MAN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING SEPARATE
MOTOR BUSSES OR COMPARTMENTS FOR THE ACCOhEAODATION
OF dMITE AND NEGRO PASSENGERS; DEFINING CERTAIN
TERMS; MAKING IT A MISDE,1v1EANOR FOR THE VIOLATION
HEREOF; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE
CITY OF BEA UMONT:
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DEFINITIONS:
(a) The term "negro", as used herein, shall include
every person of African descent as defined by the statutes
of this State.
(b) The term "motor bus", as used herein, shall
include every motor vehicle operated .as a coLmercial
common carrier of persons over, along and upon any street
or public thoroughfare within the city limits of the City
of Beaumont on a regular schedule and over a fixed route.
(c) Each commercial motor bus, as defined herein,
having a board or marker placed in a conspic0 ous place
bearing appropriate words in plain letters indicating the
race for which space is set apart shall be sufficient as
separate compartments within the meaning of this ordinance.
Section 2.
Every motor bus company or any person or the agent
of any person, firm or corporation, or lessee, manager or
receiver thereof, who operates a motor bus or motor busses
Section 7.
The fact that numerous difficulties have recently
occured between white and negro passengers on motor busses,
as herein defined, with respect to the location of seats in
such motor busses, creates a public emergency requiring the
suspension of the rule that ordinances be read on three (3)
several occasions and this ordinance shall become effective
immediately after the passage hereof.
PASSED by an affirmative vote of all members of
r,
the City CorLinission this the 2 "4 day of January, A. D.,
1939. J
A
pproved as to forme
Attorney.
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(a) The tex'l
*VOVY W80n Of AMC= Segoont As dofIn"-d by 'aio. vtat-�,tc,,-)
of thin statee
(b) The ter!n bti.,,Op as nsod horeino chall
'z"'1AYr-Y motoy vehleIR '3p=god as n oonmernal
Own= oarrier of peryane over# al=g' azndl
OF PublK thoVoudhfara vithin tho olty
On v rquto,
(0) 9ach or i".�. 'Iwtor WOO as "Pflued heroln f
havIn, a Wart or n4pkev pja&od In a glace
bearing appropriato wor&3 in p1sin !otters indleatiag the
MCO f0v *hiahPPace Is 96t apart be QLZ
t
within thq =0009 of this ordinvnae*
bootion 24
Svery Mor bus-vom,kny or any poroon o? tho agent
Of W POMOW firm Or Corporationo or lezvoo, nanager op
roceivcr IV)
�") CU)Oratee a motor bun or motr or b:%-tsvoe 0
as herein doflmedw shall provide spaparate o�ojzq�artraemts for
the accommadAtion of White R.z,,f3 xite�gro pas-sergers'a
6 11
Section 34
I
It all ll harea -1 �too be tolawful foo- a3yy Pp-L:senger
oil a in-otor bus., as defined hereino operatin,,:Y, ivithlri the
having separate
its limlts of C"Ity Of '-Seatimont xi
campartments as herein provid&d. to ride in ar.7 si7ch com-
prt-lm--ent not dei igrzal-e,,1 for 1A. -s racee
Seetion 44
It s1lall be vmltawful for any passenger on any
motor bus,
az
herein doftnod,,
operating,, the
alty
limitz of
the
01ty of Bewrfiolat,
3
, ann(l havill-I ep 'ate
eamm-
Dai tiz-j-e-nits as) herein providad,, ' to reri.,iove or change the
loonton of any board or naarker placed in said rotor bus,
for the purpose of IndicatIng the race for w1hich space is
set apart*
Section 50
x ser sonviolatin,�:,v
g any of' tho provis-lons, of this
ordinance 6hall be deemed guilty of a and upon
conn ction thereof In the Corporation Ck-.),,art shall be fined
in wvy sum not micro tbian anv) Huxidred Dolicarso
1W
Section 6*
D)ls ordinanc-e shall not be aons�r-ued so as. to
--%toraial mzr)tar vok)"cle einployed
bring within its tarns any en -
aa a o<y on carrier of persons enga,,,,,,�ed In intra- or inter.
State 002nmaree,
:cc cam 79
The fact Qat unmerous difficulties have recentlY
o
rj�, �-jet�-,-ro pats, cangert, n MOP bUSSM.,
ocaured betwoon VOItO ane
as herein defined, -with respoot to the locatOn Of a0ats IN
SuCh mtor basses, creat6s a pDblla amergenoy requiring the
onspension of the rule that ordinances be read on three (3)
several occasions and this Ordinanco shall.become Offective
aftor the passage hereof*
PASM by an af f Irmative vote of al -I -�,,imaberz of
tho City Comission this the day of Januarys
19590
Approved as to formt