HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 75-1759ORDINANCE NO. 75- 1759
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ELECTION PRECINCTS FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS;
ENACTING PROVISIONS INCIDENT AND RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Article 202b of the Texas
Election Code, the governing~body of an incorporated city is to
establish election precincts and designate the polling places for
elections held by such city, in accordance with the provisions of
Article 2.05 of said Code; and
WHEREAS, this governing body hereby finds and determines that
the election precincts for municipal elections held within the City
of Plainview, Texas, should be redefined; therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW:
SECTION 1: That all territory located within the corporate
limits of the City of Plainview, Texas, shall be and is hereby
divided into two election precincts. One precinct (Precinct No. 1)
shall consist of all of the following territory, to-wit:
Ail of that part of Hale County (Texas) election Precincts
Numbers Seven (7) and Eight (8), lying within the City Limits
of the City of Plainview.
Said Hale County (Texas) Precincts 7 and 8 being as follows:
"Precinct Seven (7) shall include all the territory in the
corporate limits of the City of Plainview lying North of West Tenth
Street and West of a line beginning at the intersection of West Tenth
Street and Quincy Street.
Thence North to the right-of-way to the Fort Worth and Denver
Railway;
Thence Northwesterly along said right-of-way to the North
Corporate limits of the City of Plainview.
P~ecln~t Eight (8) shall include all the territory in the
corporate limits of the City of Plainview lying North~of a line
beginning at the intersection of West Tenth Street and Quincy Street;
Thence East along West Tenth Street to Austin Street;
Thence South along Austin Street to West Ninth Street;
Thence East along West Ninth Street to Broadway Street.
And East of the East line of Election Precinct Seven (7)
as described above and West of the West line of Election Precinct
One (1) as described above."
The other precinct (Precinct No. 2) shall consist of all of the
following territory, to-wit:
Ail of that part of Hale County (Texas) election Precincts
Numbers One (1), Six (6), and Ten (10), lying within the City
Limits of the City of Plainview.
Said Hale County (Texas) Precincts 1, 6 and 10 being as follows:
"Pcecinct One (1) shall include all the territory in the corporate
limits of the City of Plainview lying East of a line beginning at
the intersection of Broadway Street and the South line of the
corporate limits of the City of Plainview;
Thence North along Broadway Street to the right-of-way of the
Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway;
Thence in a Northwesterly direction along said right-of-way
and following said right-of-way to the North line of the corporate
limits of the City of Plainview.
Precinct Six (6) shall include all the territory in the
corporate limits of the City of Plainview lying South of West
Tenth Street and West of Quincy Street.
Precinct Ten (10) shall include all the territory in the
corporate limits of the City of Plainview lying East of Quincy
Street; South of the South line of Election PrecinCt ~g±'ght ~8)
as described above and West of Broadway Street."
SECTION 21: 'That the Municipal Court Building, 902 Morth ~sB±maSt.,
Plainview, Texas, is hereby designated as the polling place within
Precinct No. 1. That the City of Plainview, Texas, Chamber of Commerce
and Board of City Development Building, 710 West 5th Street, Plainview,
Texas, is hereby designated as the polling place within Precinct No. 2.
SECTION 3: Ail qualified electors shall vote in the election
precinct in which they reside.
S~ECTION 4: Ail resolutions, orders or ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5: That the public importance of this measure and the
fact that it is to the best interest of the City to establish election
precincts for all municipal elections held or to be held in the City at
the earliest possible date constitute and create an emergency and an
urgent public necessity, requiring that any rule providing for ordinances
to ben, read more than one time or at more than one meeting of the City
Council be suspended, and requiring that this ordinance be passed and
take effect as an emergency measure, and any such rules or provisions
are accordingly suspended and this ordinance is passed as an emergency
measure, and shall take effect and be in full force from and after its
passage.
PASSED and APPROVED This the ~~l~ day of
,
1975.
~y~, City of Pl~inview, Texas
ATTEST:
City Clerk
City of Plainview, Texas