Ordinance No. 8,047Published in The Baytown Sun: 970828 -6
Sunday, August 31, 1997, and
Friday, September 5, 1997.
ORDINANCE N0. 8047
® AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SPEED LIMITS DURING
CONSTRUCTION ON A PORTION OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN;
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE PLACEMENT OF SIGNS BY
THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECT
DIRECTOR; 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.
WHEREAS, the Texas Department of Transportation has made it known to the
City of Baytown that operations will begin in the near future to upgrade Interstate
Highway 10; and
WHEREAS, in the interest of safety, it is desirable to maintain a construction
speed zone during the construction period; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That a construction speed zone be established along the named
highways or parts thereof described as follows:
• Along Interstate Highway 10 Main Lanes from Spring Bayou to 1,640
feet east, a distance of approximately 0.095 miles, 55 miles per hour.
• Along Interstate Highway 10 Main Lanes from 660 feet west of
Thompson Road to 330 feet east of Thompson Road, a distance of
approximately 0.057 miles, 55 miles per hour.
• Along Interstate Highway 10 Main Lanes from 2,100 feet west of
Garth Road to 400 feet east of Garth Road, a distance of
approximately 0. 144 miles, 55 miles per hour.
• Along Interstate Highway 10 Main Lanes from 2,700 feet west of
North Main Street to 330 feet east, a distance of approximately 0.019
miles, 55 miles per hour.
• Along Interstate Highway 10 Main Lanes from 400 feet east of
Sjolander Road to 540 feet to the east, a distance of approximately
0.030 miles, 55 miles per hour.
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® Section 2: That necessary signs for posting the speed zones will be furnished,
installed and maintained by the direction of the Texas Department of Transportation
engineer in charge of the project.
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this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to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.
Section 5: That any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction, be fined in any sum not to exceed TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100
DOLLARS ($200.00).
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 of
Baytown this the 28th day of August, 1997.
PETE C. ALF O, Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
efd�ACIO RAMIREZ, ,City Attorney
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