Ordinance No. 1,264ORDINANCE NO. 1264
AN ORDINANCE ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ESTABLISHED
FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 6701D, VERNON'S
TEXAS CIVIL STATUTES, UPON THE BASIS OF AN ENGINEERING AND
TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION, UPON CERTAIN STREETS AND HIGHWAYS, OR
PARTS THEREOF, WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, AS SET OUT IN THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING A PENALTY
OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE
DATE AND PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Article 6701D, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, provides that
whenever the governing body of the City shall determine upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation that any prima facie speed therein set
forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found
to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a street or
highway within the City, taking into consideration the width and condition of
the pavement and other circumstances on such portion of said street or highway,
as well as the usual traffic thereon, said governing body may determine and
declare a reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereat or thereon by
the passage of an ordinance, which shall be effective when appropriate signs
giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or other place or part
of the street or highway; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation
heretofore made as authorized by the provisions of Article 6701D, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes, the following prima facie speed limits hereafter indicated
for vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and safe; and
such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of speed indicated for vehicles
traveling upon the named streets and highways, or parts thereof, described as
follows:
(a) Along SH 146 from a point 924 feet south of Republic Avenue to a
point 2006 feet south of Republic Avenue, a distance of approxi-
mately 0.200 mile, 45 miles per hour;
(b) Along SH 146 from a point 2006 feet south of Republic Avenue to
the southwest city limits, a distance of approximately 2.777 miles,
55 miles per hour.
Section 2: Repealing Clause: All ordinances or parts of ordi-
nances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed;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 3: Savings Clause: If any provision, section, exception,
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 4: Penalty Clause: Any person who shall violate any provision
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten ($10.00) Dollars, nor more
than Two Hundred ($200.00).
Section 5: Effective Date: 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 days after the passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, this 1st day of August , 1972.
C. GLEN WALKER, Mayor
ATTEST:
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EDNA OLIVER, City Clerk
APPROVED:
NEEL RICHARDSO , City Attorney
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