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i • ORDINANCE N0. r~q._ • AN ORDINANCE MAKING "RECKLESS DRIVING" AN OFFENSE; DEFINING "RECKLESS, CARELESS OR NEGLIGENT MANNER"; DEFINING "PROXIMATE CAUSE"; DEFINING "VEHICLE"; PROVIDING ':THAT PROOF OF NO INTENT TO COLLIDE SHALL NOT BE A DEFENSE; PROVIDING FOR EXCEP- ~TIONS TO FIRE DEPARTMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT VEHICLES; AND PROVIDING THAT UPON 'I CONVICTION OF VIOLATION THE FINE SHALL BE IN ANY AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN FIVE DOLLAR j' ($5,00) NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00). BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1 (a): RECKLESS DRIVING: Whoever shall operate any vehicle • upon any public street, or upon any drive in any public park, within the corpor- ate limits of the City of La Porte, Texas, in a reckless, careless or negligent manner, so as to proximately cause, as those terms are hereinafter defined, such vehicle to collide with any other vehicle of any kind whatsoever or with any other property at any place within the said corporate limits of the said City of La Porte, Texas, shall be deemed guilty of "reckless driving", and upon convic- tion thereof shall be fined in any amount not less than Five Dollars ($5.00), nog more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). (b): RECKLESS4 CARELESS OR NEGLIGENT MANNER: The term "reckless, • careless or negligent manner" as used hereinbefore and as applicable to this ordinance shall be deemed to mean, and is hereby defined to be any violation of any traffic law of the State of Texas or any traffic ordinance of the City of La Porte, Texas, which violation is a proximate cause of any collision between a vehicle and any other vehicle of any kind whatsoever, or between a vehicle and any other property, at any place within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, Texas. (c): PROXIMATE CAUSE DEFINED: "Proximate cause" is hereby defined to • be that efficient cause which, in a natural, continuous, and unbroken sequence, iwithout the intervention of any independent cause or event, produces an event any ;without which cause that event would not have occurred. (d): VEHICLE DEFINED: The term "vehicle" is used in this ordinance ~ i in the sense that the same is used in the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on High ways, passed by the 50th Legislature (1947), Page 9611, Ch. 421 (Article 67014, 'Vernon's Annotated Texas Statutes) and has the same meaning in this ordinance as lin the Legislative act. f