Ordinance No. 4,189Published in: THE BAYIUVN SUN 50627 -10
Thursday, July 4, 1985
Friday, July 5, 1985
ORDINANCE NO. 4189
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
AUTHORIZING THE INSTALLATION OF A TRAFFIC- CONTROL
SIGNAL AT THE INTERSECTION OF BAKER ROAD AND GOOSE
CREEK DRIVE; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH;
CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM
PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100 ($200.00) DOLLARS; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Texas Revised Civil Statutes article 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, deems it
necessary to regulate, warn, or guide traffic at the intersection herein described;
NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: The following described intersection shall be a signalized
intersection and to be controlled by a traffic - control signal, to -wit:
Baker road and Goose Creek Drive
Section 2: The Director of Planning and Traffic is hereby authorized and
directed to cause the installation and maintenance of the traffic - control signal at
the above prescribed location.
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of this ordinance are hereby repealed, provided however, that such repeal shall be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 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.
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Section 5: It shall be unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to disobey the
instructions of the traffic - control device placed in accordance with the provisions of
this ordinance, unless at the time otherwise directed by a police officer or
traffic- control signal.
Section 6: 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
IVo /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 N0/100 ($100.00) Dollars.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the
Section 7: 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 27th day of
June,
1985.
NETT O. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
�v C;' �,
HALL city Clerk
E[LEEN P. , y
APPROVED:
RA DALL S ONG, City At rney