Ordinance No. 6,025Published In: THE BAYTOWN SUN 911010 -7
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
Wednesday, October 16, 1991
ORDINANCE N0. 6025
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING A MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE
SPEED LIMIT OF 20 MILES PER HOUR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IN
ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR SCHOOL ZONES; DESIGNATING
ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR SCHOOL ZONES; PROVIDING FOR
HOURS OF ENFORCEMENT ON SCHOOL DAYS; AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING THE PLACEMENT OF SIGNS BY THE DIRECTOR OF
PLANNING AND TRAFFIC; REPEALING ORDINANCES
INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF FIVE HUNDRED AND
N01100 ($500.00) DOLLARS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE
PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 168, Art. 6701D UNIFORM ACT
REGULATING TRAFFIC authorizing alteration of maximum prima facie
speed limits with respect to streets and highways within the
corporate limits of the City of Baytown based upon engineering
and traffic investigations and requested public hearings; NOW
THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That a special hazard exists to traffic safety
in the vicinity of elementary and junior schools on days when
school is in session and at times when students and other traffic
approach and depart from the vicinity of such schools and the
City Council hereby makes such findings and determines and
declares that the maximum prima facie speed limit to be
reasonable, prudent and lawful is 20 miles per hour at the times
and places designated in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and
incorporated herein for all purposes.
Section 2: The Director of Planning and Traffic is hereby
authorized and directed to cause the proper signs to be posted at
the above described locations.
Section 3: It shall be unlawful for a driver of a motor
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
device.
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repealed, provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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 set 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
No /100 ($1.00) Dollar nor more than Five Hundred and No /100
($500.00) 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 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 lease 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 10th day of October,
1991.
ETT O. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. LL, City Clerk
ACiO RAMIREZ, SRI, City Attorney
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THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SPEED ZONES
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7:30 A.M. AND 8:30 A.M. AND
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 3:00 P.M. AND 4:00 P.M.
SHALL BE ZO MILES PER HOUR
UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATIONS:
STREET
LIMITS
South Pruett
Between American and
Casey
Elvinta
Between East Elvinta
and Cedar Bayou Road
Cedar Bayou Rd.
Between East Elvinta and
the eastern school
property line
Bayway Drive
Between Honeysuckle and
500 ft. south of Post Oak
EXH T A
ADJACENT SCHOOL
Horace Mann
Cedar Bayou
Cedar Bayou
Baytown Junior
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THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPEED ZONES
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7:00 A.M. AND 8:00 A.M. AND
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2:00 P.M. AND 3:00 P.M.
SHALL BE 20 KILES PER HOUR
UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATIONS:
STREET
LIMITS
ADJACENT SCHOOL
Robin Road
Between Lazy Lane and
Travis
HCFC Ditch
East Homan
Between Austin and Dallas
Alamo
Austin
Between Homan and Alva
Alamo
East James
Between North Third and
Ashbel -Smith
North Sixth
Clayton
Between Mockingbird and
James Bowie
the north edge of school
property
Lee Drive
Between Lee and western
Carver -Jones
edge of school property
North Pruett
Between West Lobit and
Lamar
Green Avenue
Jones
Between 25' north of
Lamar
W. Adoue Avenue to 100'
south of Forrest Avenue
as it intersects with the
west side of N. Jones Street
Fairway
Between 220 feet south of
Pumphrey
Inverness and Somerset
Baker
Between 150' west of
Pumphrey
Hemlock to Village
Virginia
Between Georgia and
San Jacinto
New Jersey
Kentucky
Between Georgia and
San Jacinto
Carolina
Georgia
Between Kentucky and
San Jacinto
Virginia
Massey Tompkins
Between the eastern edge
Stephen F. Austin
of school property and
western edge of school
property
EXHIBIT A