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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 6 OF AN ORDINANCE PASSED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 22, 1953, ENTITLED: "AN
ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE DEFINING CERTAIN
TERMS; DECLARING RAILROAD CROSSINGS AT CERTAIN
STREET INTERSECTIONS AS DANGEROUS TO PEDESTRIANS
AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; PROHIBITING THE OPERATION
OF ANY RAILROAD TRAIN ACROSS SAID DANGEROUS CROSS-
INGS WITHOUT TRAIN -APPROACH SIGNALS AS DEFINED
HEREIN BEING MAINTAINED AND OPERATED; PROVIDING
FOR THE FLAGGING 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 ORDI-
NANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CON-
TRARY THERETO.."
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS:
That Section 6 of the above captioned ordinance be and the same is hereby
amended 'and shall hereafter read as follows:
Section 6.
If train -approach signals, as provided for in this ordinance, are not
in existence at any of the aforenamed dangerous crossings at the effective date
of this ordinance, the railway company operating railroad trains over said
crossings shall have until January 1, 1955, 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 center of said street or thoroughfare
at its intersection with the railroad track prior to the time the railroad train
enters 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
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at night said flagman shall carry a lighted signal so as to warn pedestrians
and vehicles approaching said crossing.
PASSED by the City Council this G/' x4 day of July, A. D., 1954.