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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING-AN:ORDINANGE'RE GULATING TRAPFIC
UPON-THE PUBLIC ,STREETS•,OF -THE CITY OF BEAUMONT; PRO-
VIDING--PENALTIES OF-FINES-'FROM ONE- ($1.00) .DOLLAR TO..
TWO . HUNDRED 200.00) : DOLLARS 'FOR, VIOLATIONS, - AND RE - .
PEALING:ALLY ORDINANCES AND.SECTIONS.OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH, PASSED BY-THE'CITY COUNCIL.OF THE
CITY.OF•,BEAUMONT ON MARCH,%22, 1955,.BY ADDING.-SECTION.
49.,A, MAKING "'NEGLIGENT - COLLISION"' AN OFFENSE; PROVID.
ING THAT IF ANY'DRIVER.OR.OPERATOR.OF A-VEHICLE SHALL'
WILLFULLY..OR WITH NEGLIGENCE-COLLIDE WITH OR CAUSE'.
DAMAGE'.TO-ANY OTHER VEHICLE OR PROPERTY.WHATSOEVER, HE
SHALL BE GUILTY.OF'NEGLIGENT COLLISION;' DEFINING.-"IJILL.-
FULLY. OR 'WITH. NEGLIGENCE°. BY ADOPTING THE ,DEFINITION.
CONTAINED IN THE•PENAL CODE OF-THIS STATE:IN THE TITLE
AND.CHAPTER ON NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE, AND PROVIDING•A PFN
'.ALTY; . DEFINING'. "VEHICLE'- -PROVIDING,.,.. THAT PROOF OF NO..
INTENT -•T0 . COLLIDE -S�-HALL., NOT BE . A.: DEFENSE;. PROVIDING FOR.
EXCEPTIONS. -TO. FIRE DEPARTMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT VEw
HICLES; 'REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES -ORI:: PARTS OF .ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND.PROVIDING A_SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE, CITY .OF' ,BEAUMONT f' .TEXAS o
That an .ordinance entitled OAN ORDINANCE.REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON
THE PUBLIC.STREETS OF THE CITY OF':BEAUMONT; PROVIDING. PENALTIES OF
FINES FROM ONE ($1.00).DOLIAR TO TWO-HUNDRED ($200.00)'DOLLARS FOR
VIOLATIONS..AND.REPEALING-ALL ORDINANCES'AND SECTIONS.-OF ORDINANCES
IN . CONFLICT HEREWITH;" passed by :the City,'Council of The City of
Beaumont on March: 22, ,1955, be, and the - same is hereby,. aiended by
adding Section' .49pA, which' Section shall• read as . follows a
"Section 49-,A.
Iv(a-)- NEGLIGENT COLLISION. If any driver. of operator of a
vehicle'upon any public street or upon any drive.in any public park-
4ithih,the corporate limits of-The. City of Beaumont,:Texas, shall
willfully or with. negligence,-'as .is .defined in .the Penal Code of this
state in the :Title and�Chapter on negligent homicide,-collide with,
or cause damage to any other vehicle of any kind whatsoever,,,or.with
any other .property at anyplace within'.
ithin the. said corporate limits of
the said The City of Beaumont, Texas, he shall be held guilty of
r�egligent.collision, and'upon conviction shall be.-punished by a fine
of not, less than One ($1.00) Dollar nor more. thar►`Two Hundred .W00.00)
Dollars.
"(b)VEHICLE DEFINED..• .The term 'vehicle" -is used `in this
ordinance - in .the sense 'that the same is .'used in the u: iform act regu-
lating.traffic on highways, passed by the 50th Legislature (1947)
Page 9617, Ch, 421 (Article 6901d, Verhon'.s.�Annotate.d Texas Statutes)
and has .the. same meaning in.,this ordinance,as in'the Legislative Act.
"(c) PROOF OF NO INTENT. Proof. of no intent on'the part_of
.,any operator of 'any vehicle charged trfth an offerise' under this ordi
nance to collide with any other vehicle or with%,an'y othe.r:property
shall 'be no defense to any charge filed. under the authority, of such
ordinance.
61 4, &r (3
19 517
0(d) Nothing contained in this ordinance shall authorize
the prosecution of any.person for the'violation of the same while
such person is operating any -Fire Department or Police Department
vehicle of the City of Beaumont in the performarice of his duty, pro-
vided that it shall not be necessary in any complaint, action or
proceeding under this'ordinance to negative this exception, but the
same shall be proved by the defendant by way of defense.
"(e) If any section, sub -section, sentence, clause, phrase,
or portion of this ordinance'is, for any reason, held invalid or un-
constitutional by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such section,
sub -section, sentence, clause, phrase,, or portion shall be deemed a
separate, distinct, and independent provision and such holding shall
not affect the validity of.the remaini,ng portions hereof.
'(f) All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
with or contraryhereto are hereby repealed.' .
PASSED by the City Council, this, �Z7--Zday of
A. D. 1957.—