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ORDINANCE No. 5255
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF
50 MPH ON ROBERT LANIER DRIVE (LOOP 201); REPEALING
ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND
N01100 ($200.00) DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION THEREOF; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section l: That a prima facie maximum speed limit with
respect to Robert Lanier Drive (Loop 201) is established at 50
miles per hour; and City Council hereby determines and declares
this prima facie speed limit to be reasonable and prudent.
Section 2: That necessary signs for posting the herein
established speed zones will be furnished, installed, and
maintained by the direction of the State Department of Highways
and Public Transportation District Engineer.
Section 3: 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 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repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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.
Section 5: If any provisions, 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 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
N01100 ($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.
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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 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 April,
1989.
4MMETT �O.HUT-tb."—kay-or
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
RANDALL B. ST ONG, C Attorney
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