Ordinance No. 3,638PUBLISHED: The Baytown Sun 30609 °1
Tuesday, June 14, 1983
Wednesday, June 15, 1983
ORDINANCE N0. 3638
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL
AT THE INTERSECTION OF COMMERCE STREET AND WEST TEXAS
AVENUE; DESIGNATING THE INTERSECTION OF COMMERCE STREET
AT WEST TEXAS AVENUE AS A STOP INTERSECTION; AUTHORIZING
THE PLACING AND MAINTAINING OF STOP SIGNS ON COMMERCE
STREET AT WEST TEXAS AVENUE; REPEALING ORDINANCES
INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100
($200.00) DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION; AND PROVIDING FOR
THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 6701d, provides that local
authorities in their respective jurisdiction may place and maintain any traffic
control device upon any highway under their jurisdiction as they may deem necessary
to regulate, warn, or guide traffic; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, deeming it
necessary to regulate, warn and guide traffic at the intersection herein described;
NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: The following described intersection shall no longer be controlled
by a traffic control signal, to -wit:
Commerce Street and West Texas Avenue.
Section 2: The following described intersection is hereby designated a stop
intersection, to -wit:
Commerce Street at West Texas Avenue.
Section 3: The Director of Planning and Traffic is hereby authorized and
directed to cause the removal of the traffic control signal and to place and
maintain the stop signs at the above prescribed location.
Section 4: 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of this ordinance are hereby repealed, provided however, that such repeal shall be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.
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Section 5: 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 b: It shall be unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to disobey the
instructions of the signs placed in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance,
unless at the time otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control signal.
Section 7: 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 One and NO /100 ($1.00) Dollar nor more than Two Hundred and
NO/100 ($200.00) Dollars except minors who have passed their 14th birthday but have
not reached their 17th birthday shall be punished by a fine of not more than One
Hundred and NO /100 ($100.00) Dollars.
Section S: 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 the
passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the
affirmative vote of
the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the
9th day of June
, 1983.
ATTEST:
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EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
ZRANDALL B. TRONG, Ci�yt rne y
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ALLEN CANNON, Mayor