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AN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING JEFFERSON
STREET FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH FORSYTHE
STREET TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH WALL STREET
AS A ONE-WAY STREET FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC;
PRESCRIBING A PENALTY;.REPEALING CONFLICTING
ORDINANCES, AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
Section 1.
ONE-WAY STREET
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person in charge
of any motor or horse-drawn vehicle to,drive same on the follow-
ing described portion of the following named street except in
the direction specified when signs indicating the direction of
traffic are erected and maintained at every intersection where
movement in the opposite direction is prohibited:
Jefferson Street from its intersection -with For-
sythe Street to its intersection with Wall Street,
traffic to move in -a southerly direction only.
The provisions of this section shall be construed as
establishing what is commonly known as a "One -Way Street" on the
street named and between the points described; and the purpose
of said provision is to make it unlawful to drive said vehicles
into or upon said area of said street except in the direction
named.
Section 2.
PENALTY
Any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation
violating any of the terms hereof shall be deemed guilty of a ms -
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not
to exceed One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars.
Section 3.
This ordinance shall be and is hereby declared to be
cumulative of all ordinances in The City of Beaumont, Texas,
and shall not operate to repeal or effect any such ordinance
or ordinances except in so far as the provisions of such ordi-
nance or ordinances are inconsistent or in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance, in which instance or instances
these provisions shall be and they are hereby repealed.
Section 4.'
Should any .section, provision,or part of this ordinance
be declared to be unconstitutional and void'by a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, such decision shall in no way affect the
validity of any of the remaining parts of this ordinance, unless
the parts held unconstitutional or void are inseparable from and
indispensable to the operation of theremaining parts. The City
Coundil hereby declares that it -would have passed those parts
of this ordinance which are valid and omitted any parts which
may be unconstitutional if it had known that such parts were un-
consitutional at the time of the passage of this ordinance.
PASSED by the City Council this 30th day of October,
A. D. 1951.
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