Ordinance No. 7,795Published in The Baytown Sun:
Wedneaday, September 18, 1996.
Thursday, September 19, 1996.
ORDINANCE NO. 7795
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, ESTABLISHING A MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF 30
MILES PER HOUR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IN THE EORACE MANN JUNIOR
SCHOOL ZONE; 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 Horace Mann
Junior School on days when school is in session and at times when students and other traffic
approach and depart from the vicinity of such school 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 following location and times:
Along Business 146 a school speed zone from a point 160 feet south of Republic
Street to 1,216 feet south of Republic Street, a distance of approximately 0.200 miles,
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Section 2: The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to place the
appropriate signs at the above described locations.
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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such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 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.
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Section 5: 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 6: 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 12th day of September, 1996.
C
PETE C. ALFAR , Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ACIO RAMIREZ, SR., y ttorney
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