Ordinance No. 742r
ORDINANCE NO. 742
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SPEED LIMITS DURING
CONSTRUCTION ON A PORTION OF SPUR 330 WITHIN
THE CITY LIMITS OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS; REPEALING
ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING
A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MiAXIMUi ;i PEN-
ALTY OF Tv40 HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the Texas Highway Department has made it known to
the City of Baytown that operations will begin in the near future
for the improvement of Spur 330; and
WHEREAS, in the interest of safety, it is desirable to main-
tain a Construction Speed Zone during the construction period; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: That a Construction Speed Zone be established
along Spur 330 from the East City Limits to a point 1000 feet East
of Bayway Drive, a distance of approximately 0.541 miles, 30 miles
per hour when so signed within said Zone.
Section 2: Necessary signs for posting the Speed Zone will
be furnished, installed and maintained by direction of the Texas
Highway Department's engineer in charge of the project.
Section 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, how-
ever, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsis-
tency, 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, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the application of
same to any person or 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: Any person, firm or corporation violating any
provision of this ordinance or failing to observe any provision
hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
shall be fined in any sum not to exceed Two Hundred (1200.00) Dollars,
and each and every day or fraction thereof, which this ordinance
or any part thereof, shall be violated, shall be deemed a separate
offense and punishable as such.
Section b: This ordinance shall be in effect only during the
period of construction, when the roadways or portions of roadway are
so signed, and completion of the project shall automatically cancel
the Speed Zone. 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 prior
y
to the construction period.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the City Council of the City
of Baytown, Texas, this 26th day of February, 1965.
ATTEST:
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
APPROVED:
V Georg, Chandler, City -Attorney
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C. L. Liggett, M.D., Mayor