Ordinance No. 9,007Published in the Baytown Sun 20000928 -6
Wednesday, Octob�er.4, 2000 and
Thursday, October 5, 2000 ORDINANCE NO. 9007
® AN ORDINANCE ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON
PORTIONS OF STATE HIGHWAY 146 AND BUSINESS 146 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 it desires to alter the prima facie speed limits along portions of State Highway 146
and Business 146 within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown; and
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 the following prima facie speed limits hereafter indicated are
determined and declared to be reasonable and safe and such speed limits are hereby fixed at a
rate of speed indicated for vehicles traveling upon the named highways, or parts thereof,
described as follows:
• Along State Highway 146 from the Chambers/Harris County boundary in the
City of Baytown to the northern interchange of Business 146, a distance of
approximately 0.979 mile, 55 miles per hour.
• Along State Highway 146 from the northern interchange of Business 146 to
the southern limits of the City of Baytown, a distance of approximately 6.964
miles, 65 miles per hour.
• Along Business 146 East from the centerline of Ferry Road to 264 feet south
of Spur 55, a distance of approximately 3.237 miles, 45 miles per hour.
• Along Business 146 East from 264 feet south of Spur 55 to the southern
interchange of State Highway 146, a distance of approximately 2.405 miles,
60 miles per hour.
® 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.
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® 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.
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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 September, 2000.
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PETE C. ALFARO, Mayor
ATTEST:
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v I W. SMITH, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
tCf�ACIO RAMIREZ, City Attorney
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