HomeMy WebLinkAbout149 06-13-1961ORDINANCE NO, 149
AN ORDINANCE TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY BY ESTABLISH-
ING MANDATORY TRUCK ROUTES WITHIN THE CORPORATE
LIMITS OF THE CITY OF EULESS; CONTAINING CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS; DESIGNATING CERTAIN STREETS, HIGHWAYS
AND THOROUGHFARES AS MANDATORY TRUCK ROUTES, PRO-
HIBITING TRUCK TRAFFIC ON OTHER THAN PRESCRIBED
TRUCK ROUTES; PROVIDING CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS; GRANTING
TO THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS,
POWER AND AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND DESIGNATE CERTAIN
TRUCK ROUTES UNDER EMERGENCY CONDITIONS; CONTAINING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
OF THIS ORDINANCE BY FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $200.00,
AND PROVIDING THAT EACH DAY OF VIOLATION CONSTITUTE A
SEPARATE OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE City Council of the City of Euless,
I.
This Ordinance shall be known as the Truck Route Ordinance.
II.
Definitions:
1) Truck: For the purposes of this Ordinance, a truck
shall be defined as a carrier motor vehicle with a gross weight load
in excess of 6,500 pounds, designed, used and /or maintained primarily
for transportation of property and which shall be held to include, but
not limited to, trailers, truck tractors, cement mixing trucks and
all dual- wheeled vehicles.
2) Trailer: Every vehicle, with or without motor power,
designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a
motor vehicle.
3) Truck Tractor: Every motor vehicle designed and used
primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to
carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load
so drawn.
4) Authorized Emergency Vehicles: Vehicles of the Fire
Department, Police Department vehicles, public and private ambulances
and other municipally -owned motor vehicles.
III.
The following streets, highways and thoroughfares in the
Corporate Limits of the City of Euless, Tarrant County, Texas, shall
be mandatory truck routes:
State Highway No. 183
F -M Highway No. 157
Main Street
Huffman Drive
Harwood Road
Pipe Line Road West from State Highway No. 183 to
Euless West City Limits.
IV.
Truck traffic, as defined in this Ordinance, is prohibited
on all streets in the City of Euless, Tarrant County, Texas, except
on designated truck routes.
V.
Authorized emergency vehicles as defined in this Ordinance
shall not be restricted to designated truck routes.
VI.
The Chief of Police of the City of Euless, Tarrant County,
Texas, shall have the power and authority to establish and designate
certain mandatory truck routes under emergency conditions.
VII.
Every section of this Ordinance and every provision of
each section is hereby declared to be an individual section or
provision and the holding of any section or provision of any
section to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any
cause whatever shall not be deemed to affect any other section
or provision hereof.
VIII.
All prior Ordinances or parts of such Ordinances in con-
flirt herewith shall be and they are hereby repealed.
IX.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than $200.00.
Each day a violation under this Ordinance continues shall con-
stitute a separate and distinct offense.
X.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force
and effect from and after the date of its passage and publication
as required by law.
ADOPTED this of June, 1961.
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