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Home My WebLink AboutORD 51-EW_ c AN ORDINANCE � f i Entitled an Ordinance amending ;sections 1, 5 and 22 of. an Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance entitled an Ordinance. defining 'hacks and carriages, providing for the licensing of same, requiring bond to be executed by the operators of hacks and carriages and prescribing rules am regulations for the operations thereof, upon and over any street in.the ity of �-eaumont; regulating the: rates to be charged by the operators of such hacks and carriage's; pre- -scribing a- penalty; providing that the invalidity of a part shall not invalidate the- whole of said ordinal-c;e; and declaring are emergency,', passed on July 5; 1921; and defining the term nhackt' omitting paragraph C of said Section 5 and striking out certain words in said Section 22 so that the same shall read as hereinafter provided., and prohibiting vehicles licensed to operate as motor bu ss.es to be licensed as hacks' and declaring an emergency. BE IT' ORDAINED BY THE CITY CO¶ALUSSION OF THE CI'T'Y OF BEAUIIlON`T': Section T. That ;lection 1 of the: Ordinance mentioned in the preamble hereof shall be amended so that th.e same shall Hereafter be and read as follows.- SECTION ollows: SECTION 1. The term °lhacktt- is hereby' CAefined to `me re, cover and embrace any vehicle for hire for the purpose of transporting. passengers upon or over any of the streets of the : ity of �eautmont, and shall include a,] 1^vehicles except. those vehicles operated upon rails or .traelTs� covered by the '1`11otor Bus." Ordinance, passed b� the City i:ommission of the City of Beaumont on the day of L. D. 1925 =t Sect� on II. That .vection 5 of the Ordinance mentioned in thereamble hereof shall be amended so 'that the same shall hereafter be and -read as follows: SECTION 5. (a) The Assessor and Collector shall keep a -record in which he shall enter the names of all ovmers of hacks or carriages and the nur_7ber and date of each license, and shall furnish the' owner thereof a number for the vehicle licensed: (b}. it shall be unlawful for- any hack or carriage to be operated upon any street in the City of Beaumont unless such ve- hicle has c onppicuously fixed thereon the license number herein provided for. Section III. I -2- SECT MIN 22. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in soliciting .for passengers or for -.baggage, fora airy hotel or other place, or -reouest- ing airy person or persons or to became: gassenge-rs, or for the carriage of any baggage in or on any vehicle for hire, far or to any hotel, railroad depot or other place, to use any loud, boisterous or vociferous language, or to speak loudly, boisterously or zroeiferous- ly, or to engage in any haggling or heckling of any person or persons for such purpose, or to seize or lay hold of* any baggage or other thing held or carried by any person or persons so solicited unless called to or requested soy to do by .such person or persons carrying said baggage or other thing, or to do or say any other thing in such way or manner to embarrass or annoy, or calculated to embarras or annoy any such person or- persons; and it shall be.. unla7"'ful for, any person or persons to solicit for passenger.. -s or baggage for any hotel or other place, or 11D solicit or call to or request aa.1y person or persons to becorfie passengers, or for the carriage of any baggage in or on an: ,T vehicle for hire for, or to may hotel, railroad depot or other place, within any passepg'er depot or upon any passenger depot platform, grounds or premises of any railroad company; grit such -person or -persons soliciting passengers or baggage as aforesaid shall appro�.ch no nearer to any such depot or depot platform or grou-n-as or premises thc-n the street curb line nearest or adjacent thereto; and, every such, perso?i so solicit- ing c1 all take his position at said curb line next to the vehicle for which he solicits, and display Yrs "For Hirer sign to the public vie,lt: Section IV. No vehicle licensed to operate as a motor bus shall be licensed to operate as a hack. Section V. The fact that the present ordinances of the City of Beaumont are inadequate to control and regulate the crowded and congested condition of the traffic along the streets in 'the City of Beaumont, and that the constantly increasing number of automobiles and other vehicles along such streets are c, --L sing a d.�ngerous condition and menace to life and property endangering public peace, health and safety of- the citizens of the City of Beaumont, creates an imperative public emergency necessitating the suspension of the rule requiring ordinances to be read on three separate days before final passage; wherefore such rule is hereby suspended and this ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. " he State of Texas, Countp • of. Jefferson fore in ,the undersigned authority, on this day personally appear Zj_, n to me, -who being by me duly SS o � � ----- —'---------of the BEAUr poses and says, that he is the_ _ _ _ _ _ BEAUMONT JOURNAL, a newspaper published in said county; that a ct fo going was published in said newspaper, s�uc'h ,publication being on ---____A. D. 191_, and a newspaper copy Cached. Sections' '1, �5 . and 22 or, au v.s nance- entitled 'An ordinance en- titled an- Ordinance ,defining hacks and carriages, providing for tiie licensing of same; requiring bona to be executed by the oporators.o-. hacks 'and carriages and prescrib'- ing, rules and ie ulations for the onarattons thereof, upon and over any 'street in theCity of Beau- mont; , regulating the rates to be by i agoperators prescribingc hackseandcara, penalty;providing that the in. validity' of a.- part shall not iu validate the whole of said ordi- nance; and declaring an e and genet," passe �qr�n July ii, 1e I; defining them "hack' omitting paragraph C of said section 5 and striking out certain words in said Section 2 so that the sanle shall read. as hereinafter pravlded• prohibiting vehicles- licensed'fo`% orate as motor buslesto eclating sin' censed as hacks a emergency. BU, ITCo1 DI INNER ' TRE HC TYITY ior, B.E,k 111ONT: That Section I op rela�l. Oedlne eof f t mentioned ill alkali hereafter be s0 thand readthe as fol - u SECTION 1.(l0 - The term `hack is ]d rcnlUiaeie iuic�d_-tn�:17 G•a:il'�C-2 is: a�? street curb line nearest or adia- cent tliereto; . and every such per- son E56 solioiting' sliall take his position at. said curb line next to the vellicle for Nchicb he solicits, and displays his "For Hire" si„ n to the public ection IV._ Vo velridle'Ticensed to 9perate as a motor' _bus sliall be licensed to operate as a hack. Section V. The fact that tho present ord- nances of\ the City o£ i`seaumont arf inadequate to control, and regulat the yroivded and congested condi tion of the traffic along the ^treed in the City of Beaumont, `and tha the constantly increasing.numbo of atitoniobiles and. other 'vehicle along 'such streets aue Causing dangerous conditiond menace t life and property,04ndangering pub lie pea e, healJow and safety of th eltiren .o£ e City of Beaunion' creates a r]iiperative hubitc renier gency cessi'tattng the suspelisio of,the rule requiring ordinances t be, read on throe separate days be fore final passage;,ti�'liereYore. suc rule is bereby. "usponded and Chi ordinanceshalt be in force .an effect from and after its passage. Passed by the Rkfirniative 'vof of all members of the.Coniinissia this the. 10th day of February, ; D. 1935. (SignBd) J. AU'f'IN BARNES, Bayo