HomeMy WebLinkAbout198 07-23-1963SPEED ZONE ORDINANCE NO. 198
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM LEGAL SPEEDS UPON CERTAIN
HIGHWAYS AND STREETS OR PARTS THEREOF WITHIN THE CORPORATE
LIMIT OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS,
AS SET FORTH IN THE ORDINANCE AND PROVIDING A PENALTY OF A
FINE NOT TO EXCEED $200 FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, Section 8 of Article 827a, Vernons Penal Code of the State
of Texas, provides that whenever the governing body of the City shall deter-
mine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any prima
facie speed therein set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe
under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon
any part of a street or highway within the City3 taking into consideration
the width and condition of the pavement and other circumstances on such por-
tion of said street or highway, as well as the usual traffic thereon, said
governing body may determine and declare a reasonable and safe prima facie
speed limit thereat or thereon by the passage of an ord:;nance, which shall
be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereon' are erected at
such intersections or other place or part of the street or hiE�iway, now there -
f ore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City cT
Euless Te.�<,.::
SECTIOU 1. The following prima facie speed limits hereaf=U-r indicated for
vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and safe; and
such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of spec d indicated f or ve-
hicles traveling upon the named streets and highways or parts V-nreof,
described as follows:
Control 94.2 -27
State Highway 183 (Detour)
Euless, Texas
(a) From Station 908.99.84 (Approximately 1900 Feet West of the Intersection
of State Highway 360 with State Highway 183), Easterly 1.631 Miles
to Station 995 +13.32, at 50 miles per hour,
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SECTION 2, The City Council of the City of Euless, Texas
declares and fixes the above maximum speed limits and the District Engineer
is hereby authorized to proceed with the erection of the ap- ropriate signs.
SECTIOi3 3. It is hereby declared that the construction project on State
Highway No. 183 has necessitated the enactment of,this ordinance oar the
safety of thos-e raversing State Highway No. 183 in the City of
Euless Texas . Therefore, the above regulations shall be infect
after the passage o this ordinance and the erection of the proper signs; and, .
this shall remain in effect until the completion and acceptance of the said
construction project by the Highway District Engineer or until such time as
the construction project has progressed to a stage whereby, in the opinion
of the Highway District Engineer, traffic may safely travel the construction
project, or portions thereof, at the rate of speed posted prior to the con-
struction. The Highway District Engineer Vaill have the authority to replace
the construction speed zone signs with speed zone signs reestablishing the
speed zoning prior to construction and the placement of such signs shall be
evidence of the governing speed zone or zones. The completion and /or accept-
ance of the said construction project by the Highway District Enr,i.neer shall
cancel the provisions of this ordinance and the Highway District Engineer
shall be authorized to remove all such signes used in compliance with regul-
ations set forth in this ordinance.
SECTION 4. any ordinance or any part thereof in direct conflict with this
ordinance is hereby superseded and the part of the ordinance in conflict
herewith shall be null and void so long as this ordinance is in effect.
I:owever, any ordinance or part of an ordinance superseded by this ordinance
shall automatically be reinstated in force upon the date of completion
and /or acceptance of the said construction project, when this ordi?aarce
is no longer in effect.
SECTION ,. li.ny person violating any of the provisions of this ordLnance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not more than two hundred 0200.00) dollars.
SECTION 6. If any part of this ordinance be declared unconstituticnal
or otherwise void by a.court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall, in no way, effect the validity of any of the remaining parts of
this ordinance unless the part held unconsititutional or void is ilzsepa-
ble from, and indispensable to, the operation of the remaining parts.
The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed those parts
of this ordinance t-Thich are valid and would have omitted any parts which
may be unconstitutional or void, if it had known such parts were 1,_con
stitutional or void at the time of the passage of this ordinance„
Speed Zone Ordinance
PASSED L1 D APPROVED THIS 23rd DAY OF July ,1q 63 .
APPROVED:
ATTEST: Mayor
City Secretary
I., (Mrs. ) Vada Ferris P City Secretary of the City of
Euless Texas, hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an Ordinance duly passed by
the City Council at a meeting held on July 23 1963 .
City Secretary