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ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 6 OF THAT CERTAIN
ORDINANCE: "ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS,
DECLARING RAILROAD CROSSINGS AT CERTAIN.STREET INTERSEC-
TIONS AS DANGEROUS TO PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC;
PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OF ANY RAILROAD TRAIN ACROSS
SAID.DANGEROUS CROSSINGS WITHOUT TRAIN -APPROACH -SIGNALS
AS DEFINED HEREIN BEING MAINTAINED AND OPERATED; PROVID-
ING FOR THE FLAGGING.BY TRAIN PERSONNEL OR RAILROAD EM-
PLOYEES OF OTHER CROSSINGS; PRESCRIBING A PENALTY OF NOT
LESS THAN $5 NOR MORE THAN $200 FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING
A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS
OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY .THERETO, " WHICH
WAS PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.ON DECEMBER 22, 1953.
BE IT ORDAINED BY,THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS:
That Section 6 of an ordinance entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS, DECLARING RAILROAD
CROSSINGS ,AT CERTAIN STREET INTERSECTIONS.-AS.DANGEROUS
TO PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; PROHIBITING THE
OPERATION OF ANY.RAILROAD TRAIN ACROSS SAID DANGEROUS
CROSSINGS WITHOUT TRAIN -APPROACH SIGNALS AS DEFINED HERE-
IN BEING MAINTAINED AND OPERATED; PROVIDING FOR THE FLAG-
GING BY TRAIN PERSONNEL OR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES OF.OTHER
CROSSINGS; PRESCRIBING A PENALTY OF NOT LESS THAN $5 NOR
MORE THAN $200 FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING.A SAVINGS.CLAUSE;
AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN -
OR CONTRARY THERETO,"
passed by the City Council on December 22, 1953, be, and the same is
hereby amended so that said Section 6 of said ordinance shall read
hereafter as follows:
"If train -approach signals, as provided for in this ordi-
nance, are not in existence at any of the aforementioned
dangerous crossings at the effective date of this ordinance,
the railway. company operating railroad trains over said
crossings shall have until January 201 1956 within which.
to install said train -approach signals at said crossings,
provided, however, it shall be unlawful, at such dangerous
railroad crossings where said train -approach signals do
not exist at the effective date of this ordinance, for any
person to operate, or permit to be operated, any railroad
train at said crossings, without providing.for a flagman
at said crossing to give notice of the approach of any
railroad train; said flagman shall be stationed in the cen-
ter of said street or thoroughfare at its intersection with
the railroad track prior to the time the railroad train en-
ters the intersection of said street or thoroughfare. In
the daylight hours, said flagman shall have'a red flag or
signal device with the word "STOP", and at night said flag-
man shall carry a lighted signal so as to warn pedestrians
and vehicles approaching said crossing."
1955. PASSED by the City Council this 20th day of October, A. D.