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t>'~ ORDINANCE 1978-1 I AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, AMENDING SECTION 104(a) OF ORDINANCE 1950-13, ADOPTED JULY 25, 1950, WHICH SPECIFIED THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS AUTHORIZED TO IMPOUND STANDING OR PARKED VEHICLES, AND WHICH IS CODI- FIED AS' SECTION 29-152(a), OF ARTICLE VII, CHAP- TER 29 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, BY ADDING ADDI- TIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH STANDING OR PARKED VEHICLES COULD BE IMPOUNDED; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN AARCOS, TEXAS: Part 1. That Section l04(a) of Ordinance 1950-13, adopted July 25, 1950, and codified as Section 29-152(a) of Article VII, Chapter 29 of the Code of Ordinances, which specifies the circumstances under- which the police department is authorized to impound standing or parked I vehicles be, and is hereby, amended to add these additional circumstance under which standing or parked vehicles ~ould be impounded, to-wit: 1. When any vehicle is &11egal1y parked so as to block the entrance I to any private driveway and it is impracticable to move such vehicle from in front of the driveway to another point on the pulblib street. 2. When any vehicle is parked within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, except within an officially marked ~~rking stall. I 3. When any vehicle is parked within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and, on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station, within seventy-five (75) feet of such entrance (when properly sign- posted) . Part 2. That this Ordinance shall be effective ten (10) days from and after its final passage. PASSED AND APPROVED on first reading December 12, 1977 PASSEB AND APPROVED on second reading December 19, 1977 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED ~nua7 ~ 19~ ~:l~ Mayor ~lJTEST.: J / . ~JJnk~ Doriss Hambrick City Secretary I u~~ Charles E. Evans City Attorney Published Hays Co. Citizen ~anuary 12, 1978