Ordinance No. 13,071ORDINANCE NO. 13, 071
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 schools
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 place herein described:
THE SCHOOL
SPEED •
AFTER THE
START OF
AFTER THE
END OF EACH SCHOOL DA)'AT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS
THE FOLLOWING SPEED LIMITS
Street
Limits Seed Limit
School
From 200 feet west of Lee
Lee High School and
Market Street
Drive, to a point 3900 feet
30 MPH
Early College High
west of Lee Drive.
Schools
From 1100 feet south of
Early College High
Lee Drive
Market Street, to a point 1500
20 MPH
School
feet south of Market Street.
Section 2: The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to place and
install appropriate signs with flashing lights or beacons for the high schools referenced in Section
1 hereof, which lights or beacons shall flash to designate when the reduced speeds in the school
zones are in effect.
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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of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
City of Baytown, this the 10th day of December, 2015.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ACID RAMIREZ, SR., a Attorney
of the City Council of the
H. DONCARLOS,
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