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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 6-O. �. _114 0q - ALIT ORDINANCE ENTITIZD AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING COMPARTMENTS ON MOTOR -BUSSES FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF WHITE AND NEGRO PASSENGERS; DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS.: PROVIDING THAT COPIES OF CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE BE POSTED IN•EACH BUS; MAKING IT A MISDEMEANOR FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF AND PROVIDING A PEN- ALTY AND REPEALING ALL * ORDINANCES N CONFLICT HEREWITH AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAJNED BY THE CITY COWISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section 1. - 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 commercial 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) Eash motor bus, as defined herein, having a board or marker placed in a conspicuous place bearing appropriate words in plain letters indicating the race for which space is set a- part, shall be Buff3ciont ' as a separate compartment 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 as herein de- fined, shall provide separate compartments for the accommodation of white and negro passengers. Section 3. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any passenger on a motor -,bus,, as defined. here , inoperating" within the City limits. of the`City of Beaumont and having separate compartments as herein provided, to ride in any such compartment not designat- ed for his race. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any pas en er-on -any motor bus, as herein defined, operating within t e ity limits of -the City of Beaumont,- and having separate compartments as herein provid- ed, to remove or change the location of any board or marker +, placed in said motor bus for'the purpose of indicating the race ,1 ', for which space is set apart. Section 5. Every motor bus company or individual operating a motor bus, as herein defined.. shall keep copies of the sections hereinafter designated posted in each motor bus; and it shall hereafter be unlawful for anyone to operate a motor bus, as defined herein, within the City limits of the City of Beau- mont, which motor bus does not have posted therein in a con- spicuous place a printed copy of the following sections of this Ordinance: Section 3, Section 4 and Section 6. Section 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this or- dinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- viction thereof in the Corporation Court shall be fined in any stun not more than One Hundred (6100.00) Dollars. Section 7. This ordinance shall not be construed so as to bring with- in its terms any commercial motor vehicle employed as a common carrier of persons engaged in intra- or inter -state commerce. Section 8. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be, and hereby are, expressly repealed. Section 9. The fact that numerous difficulties have recently occurred between white and negro passengers on motor busses, as herein defined, with respect to the location of seats in said motor busses, and the fact that the City of Beaumont has at present no adequate ordinance regulating the segregation of races on motor buses creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the rule requiring all ordinances to be read on three several occasions, whereas, such ruling is here- by suspended and this Ordinance shall become effective immediate- ly upon the passage hereof. PASSED by an affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission this theday of July, A.D ., 1942.