Ordinance No. 10,765ORDINANCE NO. 10,765
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE FOR VICTORIA
WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALONG SEABIRD STREET,
ESTABLISHING A MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF 20 MILES
PER HOUR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IN THE VICTORIA WALKER
ELEMENTARY 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 Victoria
Walker Elementary 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 20 miles per hour at the following location and times:
Along Seabird Street a school speed zone from a point 100 feet west of the north
right-of-way line of Garth Road to a point 100 feet east of the south right-of-way
line of Eastpoint Blvd., between the hours of 7:15 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. and 2:30
p.m. and 3:30 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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of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
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#fie City of Baytown this
the 19th day of November, 2007.
STEPHEN H. DONCARLOS, Mayor
, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ACIO RAMIREZ, SR., CityAhorney
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