Ordinance No. 12,697ORDINANCE NO. 12,697
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS FOR
MOTOR VEHICLES IN DESIGNATED SCHOOL ZONES AND PROVIDING
FOR HOURS OF ENFORCEMENT ON SCHOOL DAYS OR WHEN
CHILDREN ARE PRESENT; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
PLACEMENT OF SIGNS BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS;
REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING
A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO
HUNDRED AND NO /100 DOLLARS ($200.00); AND PROVIDING FOR THE
PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code, authorizing
alteration of maximum prima facie speed limits with respect to highways or portions thereof
within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown based upon engineering and traffic
investigations and requested public hearings; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That a special hazard exists to traffic safety in the vicinity of elementary
schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and other student attended facilities within the
corporate limits of the City of Baytown on days when schools are in session and at times when
students and other traffic approach from and depart from the vicinity of such schools and
facilities and the City Council hereby makes such findings and determines and declares that the
maximum prima facie speed limits to be reasonable, prudent and lawful are as follows at the
time and places herein described:
Street Limits School
Extending from 700 feet north of the
intersection of North Main Street at Archer
N. Main Road to 2,000 feet north of the intersection of Alamo Elementary School
North Main Street at Archer Road, for a total
distance of 1,300 feet. j
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPEED ZONE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7:15 A.M. AND
8:15 A.M. AND BETWEEN THE HOURS 01---'):')0 P.M. AND 3:30 P.M. SHALL BE 35
MILES PER HOUR UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATION:
Extending • 'll feet north of
intersection of • at Devinwood Drive to
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411 feet south of • of 4• at
Clark Elementary School
Devinwood Drive, for a total distance of 800
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPEED ZONE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7:15 A.M. AND
8:15 A.M. AND BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2:30 P.M. AND 3:30 P.M. SHALL BE 20
MILES PER HOUR UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATION:
Cedar Bluff Drive
; Extending • m its intersection with SH 146
Clark Elementary School
to its intersection with Cedar Landing Drive
Section 2: The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to place the
appropriate signs at the locations described in Exhibits "A" and "B."
Section 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this
ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of
such inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other
ordinances regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 4: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence,
clause or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any person or the set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall
not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application to other
persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
Section 5: This ordinance shall take effect from and after ten (10) days from its
passage by the City Council. The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing
the caption of this ordinance to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Baytown at
least twice within ten (10) days after passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affir n e vote of the City Council of the
City of Baytown, this the 23`d day of October, 2014.
H. DONCARLOS, Mayor
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ATTEST:
LETICIA BRYSCH, City
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ACIO RAMIREZ, S ., ity Attorney
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Exhibit "A"
Proposed Permanent School Zone
500 ft. Signing and Pavement Markings
Scale N
Alamo Elementary School
.N"Ww Baytown, Texas
Figure 2
Exhibit "B"
Proposed Permanent School Zone
500 ft. Signing and Pavement Markings
Scale N Clark Elementary School
Baytown, Texas
Figure 2