Ordinance No. 8,820Published in the Baytown Sun:
Tuesday, February 1, 2000 and
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
ORDINANCE NO. 8820
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® AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE FOR HORACE MANN
JUNIOR SCHOOL ALONG TEXAS BUSINESS 146, ESTABLISHING A
MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF 30 MILES PER HOUR FOR
MOTOR VEHICLES IN THE HORACE MANN JUNIOR SCHOOL ZONE,
AND 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 Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code, authorizing
alteration of maximum prima facie speed limits with respect to highways or portions thereof
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 Texas Business 146 a school speed zone from a point 300 feet north of the
north right -of -way line of E. Republic Street to 1,216 feet south of the north right -
of -way line of E. Republic Street, 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 location.
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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of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
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® 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 N01100 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 27th day of January, 2000.
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. -MALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ACIORAMIREA, S , City Attorney
PETE C. ALFAR , Mayor
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