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+ Aak <br />refusal, as the case ray be, of such person, firm, association or corporation, to pay <br />said street rental charge on or before the said seventh da,y of said r.lonth, as required <br />herein and/or in the franchise crnn.ted by the City of Pariso <br />sEcr-PTOrs 6. Should it be deter.m.i.ned that any, provision or requirement of this <br />ordin.ance iS, for any reason, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be disre- <br />garded, and the remaining provisions hereof shall be in r.a iray afYected but shal~ re- <br />main in fu11 'Lorce and effect. <br />SECTIOIN 7. The fact that the courts have interpreted Axticle 6698, ilevised Civil <br />Statutes, 1925, as restricting the rights of cities to collect street rental charges <br />from motor vehicles operated locally for hire, and that said Article 6698 has been <br />amended to exnressly authorize an.d empower the cities of Texas to levy and colleet such <br />street rental charge, leaving in doubt the present validity of provisions contained in <br />franchises heretofore granted and still in effect, and the further fact that it is in <br />the interest of the peop].e of the City of Paris that immediate provision be expressly <br />made for the levy and collection of such street rental eharge which is justly due the <br />City of iaris, creates a public emergency which is hareby declared rec?uiring that the <br />rules and charter provisions requiring ordinances to be read on three several occasions <br />and referrQd to a cor;umittee be and the 3ame are hereby suspended an d this ord3nance <br />shall take effect from and after its passage.ky~ a~ <br />PA3aT+ ZD 1a:(.?PRCNM Tf?IS THP, _Y_DIY OF 1947• <br />Ayes . <br />P.Iayor oP the City of Paris. <br />Tday s . <br />nTTx'ST : <br />City Secretary. <br />