HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 43-DAN ORDINANCE
Requiring the Gulf, Colorado 8Santa Re Railway
Company to keep and maintain a flagman at the North
Street crossing of said railroad during certain hours
of the day;prescribing a penalty for the failure of
said Railway Company to keep and maintain said flagman
at said crossing; and declaring an emergency*
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
Section 1.
That the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Re Railway
Company is hereby ordered, and shall, from and after
the date this Ordinance becomes effective, be required
to keep and maintain, between o'clock A.M.
and o clock 2,11. of each and every day, a
flagman at the North Street crossing of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa -Fe Railroad in the City of Beawnont.
Such flagman shall be properly equipped at all times while
on duty with proper and necessary signaling devices' -and
shall warn all persons traveling along North Street of the
approach of any engine or train along such railroad,
Section 2.
Upon fa -lure to provide and maintain a flagman
properly equipped at the North Street -crossing of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, as required in
Section 1 hereof, the said Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway Company shall be liable to a penalty of 0100.00
for each and every day it shall faL1 to provide and
maintain such flagman, as required in Section 1 hereof,
the same to be recovered in a suit brought in the name
of the City of Beaumont -in any court of competent juris-
diction.
Alt fi
gection 3.
By the term "maintaining a flagman" as used herein is
meant either the keeping of a man on duty at said crossing
during the hours provided above properly equiped with flagging
devices, or the stopping of all trains, engines or cars before
reaching said., crossing and one of the crew of such train, engine
or car, advancing over said crossing ahead of the train, engine
or car with proper flagging devices.
Section 41
the fact that persons passing along North Street at the
crossing of said street over the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad are unable to see approaching trains along said rail
road, in many instances until too late to avoid collision;
thereby constituting a public hazard endangering the lives
of persons travelling said street, 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 take effect from and after the date of its
passage•
i'assed by the --affirmative vote of all members of tIz City
Commission this 10th day of April,