Ordinance No. 7,756Published in The Baytown Sun:
Wednesday, July 31, 1996,
Thursday, August 1, 1996.
ORDINANCE NO. 7756
is 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 AND 30 MILES PER HOUR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IN
SENIOR SCHOOL ZONES; PROVIDING FOR HOURS OF ENFORCEMENT ON
SCHOOL DAYS; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE PLACEMENT OF
SIGNS BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS; REPEALING ORDINANCES
INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100
DOLLARS ($200.00); AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND
EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 6701 D, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, 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: That a special hazard exists to traffic safety in the vicinity of senior 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 30
miles per hour at the times and places designated in Exhibit "B" attached hereto and incorporated
herein for all purposes.
Section 3: The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to place the
appropriate signs at the above described locations.
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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such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 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
No /100 Dollar ($1.00) nor more than Two Hundred and No /100 Dollars ($200.00) 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 Dollars ($100.00).
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 25th day of July, 1996.
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PETE C. ALFAR , Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ermACIO RAMI Z, SR., i Attorney
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THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPEED ZONES
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7 A.M. AND 8 A.M. AND
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 3 P.M. AND
4 P.M.
SHALL BE 20 MILES 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 the
James Bowie
north edge of school property
Lee Drive
Between Lee and western edge
Carver Jones
of school property
North Pruett
Between West Lobit and
Lamar
Green Avenues
Fairway
Between 220 feet south of
Pumphrey
Inverness and Somerset
Baker
Between 150 feet west of
Pumphrey
Hemlock to Village
Virginia
Between Georgia and New
San Jacinto
Jersey
Kentucky
Between Georgia and Carolina
San Jacinto
Georgia
Between Kentucky and
San Jacinto
Virginia
Massey Tompkins
Between the eastern edge of
Stephen F. Austin
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school property and western
edge of school property
EXHIBIT A
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THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SPEED ZONES
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8 A.M. AND 8:30 A.M. AND
3:30.P.M. AND 4:30 P.M.
SHALL BE 20 MILES PER HOUR
UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATIONS:
STREET LIMITS
Massey Length of street
State Highway 146 From a point 160 feet south of
Republic Street to 1,216 feet
south of Republic Street
Elvinta Between East Elvinta and
Cedar Bayou Road
Cedar Bayou Road Between East Elvinta and the
eastern school property line
Bayway Drive Between Honeysuckle and
600 feet south of Post Oak
EXHIBIT A
ADJACENT SCHOOL
Old Horace Mann School
Community Guidance Center
Horace Mann
Cedar Bayou
Cedar Bayou
Baytown Junior
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THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SPEED ZONES
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7 A.M. AND 7:30 A.M. AND
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2:30 P.M. AND 3:30 P.M.
SHALL BE 30 MILES PER HOUR
UPON THE FOLLOWING STREET LOCATIONS:
STREET LIMITS
Market Between Martin Luther King
Blvd. and Goose Creek Bridge
Baker Road On Baker Road between
Allenbrook Drive and the
entrance to Baker Downs
Apartments
EXHIBIT R
ADJACENT SCHOOL
Robert E. Lee
Ross S. Sterling