HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-00138ODIUM 10, yao;
AN ORD/NAN0E IN!'INING "TN" AND EMULATING
TERM _oPER&TION BY OIROt1MSORIBING TEE R PAM.
LEGS IN TM USE OP ORRTLm. PARTS OP oERTAIN
STREETS OP THE CITY OF MIAMI BY PROVIDING TUT
NO "JITNEY" MALL STOP TO TARE ON O OR . DISCHARGE
PASSENGERS ,WITRIN FIFTY PT FROM TEE INTER-
SEOTION OP THE STREETS REREIN DESIGNATED AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY POR VIOLATION TREREOP AND
DECLARING IRIS AN EMERGENCY ORDIitANOE.
„+c S, the City of Miami, Florida, has more automobi2.ea per
capita than any other Oity of the tThited States, and
WiMUS, the number of automobiles is greatly augmented during
the winter or tourist season, and
SAS, the streets hereinafter mentioned and designated are
all business streets of Miami and are extremely narrow and altogether
inadequate for the aocommodation of traffic, and
WEEMS, the boundaries or districts hereinafter designated as
intersections are within an area in the Oity that is continually
congested by traffic, and
WHEAS, said traffic congestion is a nuisance which can only
be relieved by circumscribing the privileges of jitneys in the use
of certain streets as designated and described herein by intersections,
WE REAS, the operation of jitneys on said streets in said congested
district without regulation of such use causes great inconvenience to
the publio and is a menace to life and dangerous to property, and
WHEREAS, the Commission of the City of Miami deems it necessary in
the interests of the publio to circumscribe' the privileges of jitneys
in the use of parte Of certain streets in said congested district so as
to prohibit jitney busses from taking on or discharging passengers in
said oonggested dietriot at any point within fifty feet of the inter..
section of the streets hereinafter set forth
ZiOW, TIiEREM'ORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF TRZ 0ITT OF
MIAMI
&Mien.1. Por the purpose of this ordinance the terms R3itne+le9
shall be taken to man ark self propelled vehiole other than street
oar, railroad oar, or railroad locomotive, travereing a public street,
avenue or roadway between definite or substantially fixed points or
terminals, or along a definite or substantially fixed route or routes
and carrying passengers for hire or furnishing passenger transporta-
tion for hire along or over public streets avenues or roadways from,
to or between definite or substantially fixed localities or districts.
Section 2. That part of the territory within the corporate
limits of tho City of Miami, Florida, which is included and set forth
in Section 4 hereof is hereby defined as a "congested district', with
reference to the operation of jitney vehicles.
Section 3. That no jitney &all stop to reoeive or discharge
any passengers within fifty feet of the intersections of streets
hereinafter set forth in Section 4 of this ordinance, nor shall 'any
operator or driver of any jitney vehiole allow any person to enter
or leave ouch vehiole within fifty feet of the intersections of streets
hereinafter set forth, nor shall any operator or driver of any jitney
vehicle permit any passenger or passengers to enter or leave any jit-
ney except from the side thereof nearest the street curb.
Seotion 4. The intersections of streets set forth in Section
2 hereof which are within the congested district and are as follows:
At the intereeotion of Flagler Street and North and South
Miami Avenue;
At the intereeotion of Flagler Street and Northeast and
Southeast First Avenue;
At the intersection of Flagler Street and Northeast and
Southeast Second Avenue;
At the intereeotion of Southeast First Street and South-
east First Avenue;
At the interaeotion of Northeast First Street and North-
east First Avenue;
At the intersection of Northeast Second Street and North-
east Firet Avenue.
Section 5. Any person, firm, corporation or aeaooiation who call
violate any of the provisions of thie ordinance shall, upon conviction
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this 29th day of August, A. D. 1922.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on its second reading and read, i
29th day of August, 1. D. 1922.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
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thereof, be puniehed a fine of not less than 06600 nor nare thein
4100600 for molt and every offense, and the person, firm, oorporation
or assoolktion guilty of any doh violation shall be hal& gttilty of
a separate and distinct Wanes for each and every day during avIlioh
• $1
said violation shall oontinte6
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Section 6. This ordinance is deolred to be an emergent:7111hour°
on the ground of urgent publio need for the preservationsot peace,
health, safety and property, and is passed by a vote of not 146
tour -fifths of th.e members of the Commission of the City of IA
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PASSED AND ADOPTED on its first reading andread by title
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