The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1903-10-28
An Ordinance Regulating the Run
ming of Trains, the Construction
and Maintenance of Railroad
Crossings and Lights at
the Same and Traffic
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at Depots.
Be it Ordained by the City
Council of the City of San
Angelo that:
Article |. Every corporation.
receiver or receivers, trustee or
trustees, owning or operating a
line of railway through any por-
ton of the City of San Angelo
shall hereafter be required to
place, erect, and maintain a light
or lights at any point on its line
running through or upon any
street in said City that the City
Council of said City may by re-
solution direct, and said light or
lights shall be of such character
and constructed and erected in
such a manner us the said City
Council may in said resolution
require. 1t shall be the duty of
the City Marshal of said City
upon the passage of any such
resolution to give notice thereof
in writing to the local agent in
San Angelo of the corporation,
receiver or receivers, or trustees
named therein.
Article 2. Any corporation, re-
ceiver or receivers, trustee or
trustees, who shall fail or refuse
to comply with the requirements
or directions of any resolution
provided for herein within ten
days after the receipt by its local
agent of notice thereof, as herein
provided, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be fined in any
sum not less than ten or more
than twenty-five dollars, and
each day of such failure or re-
fusal shall constitute a separate
offense.
Article 3. Every railway COM
pany constructing or operating
its railway through the limits of
the City shall erect and maintain
permanently good and sufficient
crossings and also culverts and
waterways for drainage at all
streets over which it's road may
pass, including streets hereafter
laid out and opened, and in cross
ing streets such railway shall con-
form to the grade and level of the
streets as established by the city /;
provided, that the CITY Council
may by special resolution grant
permission to the railway COM
pany to raise or lower said grade
Every person or corporation who
shall violate this article shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be
fined not less than ten or more
than one hundred dollars.
Article 4 Any person in this
city who shall stop or cause to
be stopped any railway engine or
car across any street, alley or
other pathway for more than five
minutes, or shall run an engine
after dark without q headlight,
shall be deemed guilty of q mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction,
shall be fined not less than five
or more than one hundred
dollars.
Article 5. Any person who shall
conduct, run or cause to be run
any railway engine or car at a
greater speed than six miles an
hour within the corporate limits
of San Angelo shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Art. 6. Any person not be-
ing regular passenger or an en-
ployee or officer of the. railway
company who shall jump on or
off, or cling to or hang on to any
railway engine or car, while the
same is in motion, in this city,
or who shall be concealed III any
manner about or in any car or
train of cars who is not in the
employ of the company owning
such train or car, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Art. Z. Any person who shall
conduct, run or cause to be run
any railway locomotive or engine
without ringing a bell attached
thereto before starting and all
the time such locomotive or en-
CINE shall be in motion within
the corporate limits of this city
shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Art. s. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to solicit passengers
or customers upon the arrival of
any train in this city upon the
platform of any railway COM
pany or upon the space between