Ordinance No. 4,804Published: The Baytown Sun
Tuesday, September 15, 1987
Wednesday, September 16, 1987
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ORDINANCE NO. 4804
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, REPEALING THE DESIGNATION OF THE INTERSECTION OF
COLUMBIA STREET AT HAROLD LANE AS A STOP INTERSECTION
AND AUTHORIZING THE REMOVAL OF SUCH SIGNS; DESIGNATING
HAROLD LANE AT COLUMBIA STREET AS A STOP INTERSECTION
AND PROVIDING FOR THE POSTING OF STOP SIGNS ON HAROLD
LANE AT COLUMBIA STREET; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSIS-
TENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING. A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING
A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100 ($200:00)
DOLLARS FOR THE VI.OL'ATION` THEREOF; AND PROVIDING FOR
THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, pursuant
to the provisions of Article 6.701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, does declare
the following described intersection will no longer be a stop intersection,
to -wit:
® Columbia Street at Harold Lane
Section 2: The Director of Planning and Traffic is authorized and
directed to cause the removal of such signs at the above described location.
Section 3: That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, pursuant
to the provisions of Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, does declare
the following described intersections to be stop intersections, to -wit:
Harold Lane at Columbia Street
Section 4: The Director of Planning and Traffic is hereby authorized to
cause the proper signs to be posted at the above described location.
Section 5: 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 6: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed, provided however, that such repeal
shall be'.onl:y 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 7: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or th.e application of same to
any person or set of circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitu-
tional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validi:ty.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 8: Any, person -who shall violate any provision of this ordinance
shall be deemed .guilty of a misdeameanor 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 9: 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 10th day of September, 1987.
ETT 0. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Cler
® ANDALL B. STRO , City Attorney
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