ORD CC 05/07/1963 - Parking Meter Zone AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, AMEND-
ING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY ADDING A SECTION TO BE NUMBERED
SEC. 12-64, TO ESTABLISH A PARKING METER ZONE TO INCLUDE A
PUBLIC PARKING LOT OPERATED BY THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS,
AND TO PROVIDE THE REGULATION THEREOF AND PENALITIES FOR
VIOLATION.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Huntsville:
That the code of ordinances of the City of Huntsville, Texas, shall be
hereby amended by adding a section to be numbered Sec. 12-64, which said
section reads as follows:
SEC. 12-64
(a) In addition to the area designated in Sec. 12-50 as the parking
meter zone, there is hereby designated as a parking meter zone, the public
parking Lot described as follows:
ALL of a certain Lot or parcel of land being situated in
the City of Huntsville, County of Walker, State of Texas, be-
ing parts of Lots 11 and 12 in Block No. 3, according to the
map and plan of said City of Huntsville, and being described
by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING at the intersection of the north Line of 12th
Street, with the east Line of Avenue M, a stake for corner;
THENCE North with the said East Line of Avenue M 125
feet to a stake for the Southwest corner of a Lot or parcel of Land,
also Located in said Block No. 3, presently Leased to Humble
Oil & Refining Company;
THENCE East 100 feet to the Southeast corner of the said
Humbet Oil & Refining Company Lot, a stake in the West Line of
a lot or parcel of Land, also Located in said Block No. 3, pre-
sently leased to J. N. Scarborough;
THENCE South 15 feet to a stake for the Southwest cor-
ner of the said Scarborough Lot;
THENCE East with the Lower South Line of the said Scar-
borough Lot 35 feet to a stake for corner;
THENCE South 110 feet to a stake for corner in the said
North line of 12th Street;
THENCE West with the said North Line of 12th Street 135
feet to the place of beginning.
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(b) The Mayor is hereby authorized to cause parking spaces to be
designated, maintained, and marked off in and on said public parking Lot.
The fact that a parking space is designated by Lines or marks painted on the
surface of the public parking lot shall be prima facie evidence that the mayor
was authorized by the City Council to designate the same at the place it is
Located and no vehicle shalt be parked on said public parking Lot except in
the space designated by the marks on the surface thereof for parking vehicles.
(c) The City Council is hereby authorized to cause to be installed
and maintained parking meters in and on such parts of the public parking
lot abutting the space provided for the parking of vehicles thereon, and
shall be so set as to show or display a signal showing whether the parking
space is or is not Legally in use. Each parking meter shall be installed and
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set to display, upon the deposit therein of one or more coins of the United
States of America, a signal indicating Legal parking for that period of time
conforming to the limit of parking time charged therefor as indicated by
the required coins specified on the meter. Each parking meter shall also
be so arranged, that, upon the expiration of such Legal parking time, it
will indicate, by a mechanical operation, a proper sign, that the Lawful
parking period indicated on the meter has expired.
(d) Every vehicle parked in or on the public parking Lot shall be
parked clearly within the space provided for the parking of a vehicle with
the front of the vehicle directed toward the parking meter next to such park-
ing space and as near to the meter as the barrier or curb in front of the
meter is installed,
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(e) When any vehicle shalt be parked in the space provided for the
parking of vehicles, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the
marked parking space, immediately deposit one or more coins indicated
on the meter of the United States of America, in a slot made therefor in
the parking meter, and the parking meter space shall then be used by such
vehicle during the parking time Limits for which such deposited coin or
coins is payment as indicated on the meter. If the vehicle shall remain
parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit for which
such deposited coin or coins is payment, the parking meter shalt display
a sign showing overtime or illegal parking, and in that event, such vehicle
shall be considered as parked over time and beyond the period of time for
which payment has been made. Such over time parking of a vehicle shalt
be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance,
(f) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, Let, permit
or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or owned or operated by him
or under his possession or under his control, to be or remain in any park- p
ing space next to which a parking meter is placed white the meter is dis-
playing a signal showing that such vehicle shalt have parked for a period of
time for which payment has not been made by deposit of a coin or coins in `
the parking meter, without paying, within 24 hours a charge of 25� for each
hour or fractional part thereof when such vehicle shalt remain white the
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parking meter shows a signal that no coin or coins has been deposited for
the time during which such vehicle is so parked, to the City. The display
of a signal by the parking meter showing illegal parking while a vehicle
is parked in the space provided for parking adjacent or adjoining such
meters shall be prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked for
a time for which no coin or coins has been deposited in the meter,
(g) The provisions of this section shall apply on all days except
Sundays and holidays and shall be effective on Saturdays from 8:00 o'clock
A. M. to 8:00 o'clock P. M. and on week days from 8:00 o'clock A. M,, to
6:00 o'clock P. M. , and shalt apply to the public parking lot described in
sub-paragraph (a) hereof,
(h) It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper
with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any
parking meter installed under the provisions of this ordinance,
(i) Any person who shall be found guilty of a violation of this ordi-
nance shalt be guilty of a misdemeanor.
On motion duly made and unamiousty approved at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas, the above and foregoing
ordinance was passed this 7th day of May, 1963,
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RA YYAOND T W GHT, MAYOR
ATTEST:
SECRETARY