HomeMy WebLinkAbout1962-0355 - Ordinance - 09/24/1962BOORUM & PEASE
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ORDINANCE NO. 355
AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT PERSONAL INJURIES TO SCHOOL CHILDREN BY REGULATING
THE PASSING OF SCHOOL BUSES IN THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, PROVIDING A
PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, it is provided in Article 6701d, Section 104, of the Civil
Statutes of Texas, 1925, that the driver of a vehicle upon a highway outside
of a city or town shall stop before passing a school bus which is in the
process of discharging or receiving children, and
WHEREAS, there is no similar regulation to protect children while
such school buses are operating on the streets of College Station, and
WHEREAS, it is desirable to protect school children when arriving at
and departing from their homes to school on school buses,
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College
Station, Texas:
SECTION 1. The driver of a vehicle upon a street in the limits of
the City of College Station upon meeting or overtaking, from either direction,
any school bus which has stopped on the street for the purposes of receiving
or discharging any school children shall stop the vehicle immediately before
passing the school bus, but may then proceed past such school bus at a speed
Which is prudent, not exceeding ten (10) miles per hour, and with due caution
for the safety of the children.
SECTION 2. Any person, violating this ordinance, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be punished by a fine not
exceeding fifty ($50.00) dollars.
SECTION 3. The fact that schools have commenced in College Station,
Texas, at the present time, and the further fact that there is no adequate
safeguard in existence for the protection of school children entering and
leaving buses on the streets of the City of College Station, creates an
emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring that the rules and
provisions providing for ordinances to be read more than one time at more
than one meeting be suspended, and requiring that this ordinance be passed
as and take effect as an emergency measure; such rules and provisions are
accordingly suspended and this ordinance is passed and shall take effect as
an emergency measure and shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage.
ATTEST:
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 24th day of September, 1962.
APPROVED:
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City Secretary
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