HomeMy WebLinkAbout407 08-10-1971ORDINANCE NO. 407
CONSTRUCTION SPEED ZONE ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM LEGAL SPEEDS UPON
CERTAIN HIGHWAYS AND STREETS OR PARTS THEREOF WITHIN
THE CORPORATE LIMITS 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 VIOLA-
TION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, Section 167 and 169 of Article XIX, R.C.S. 6701d,
Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, provides that whenever the
governing body of the City shall determine upon the basis of an engi-
neering and traffic investigation that any prima facie speed therein
set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the con-
ditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any
part of a street or highway within the City, taking into consideration
the width and condition of the pavement and other circumstances on such
portion 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 ordinance,
which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof
are erected•at such intersections or other place or part of the street
or highway, now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Euless Texas:
SECTION 1. The following prima facie speed limits hereafter indicated
for vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and
safe; and such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of speed in-
dicated for vehicles traveling upon the named streets and highways
or parts thereof, described as follows: `
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State Highway 183
Tarrant County,
From Station 913 +03.66 (approximately 1150 feet west of the intersection with
State Highway 360) easterly 1.973 miles to Station 1017 +23.12 (East City- Li:.its
of Euless, being also the West City Limits of Irving) at 40 or 50 miles per
hour as determined by Resident Engineer in charge of construction, depending
on the conditions of the job under construction..
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CONSTRUCTION SPEED ZONE ORDINANCE
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Euless
declares and fixes the above maximum speed limits and the District Engineer'
is hereby authorized to proceed with the erection of the appropriate signs.
SECTION 3. It is hereby declared that the construction project on State
highway No. 183 has necessitated the enactment of this ordinance for the
safety of those traversing State Highway No. 183 in the City of
Euless Therefore, the above regulations shall be in
effect after the passage of 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 construction. The Highway,District Engineer will have the authority
to replace the construction speed zone signs with speed zone signs reestab-
lishing 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 acceptance of the said construction project by the Highway District.
Engineer shall cancel the provisions of this ordinance and the Highway Dis-
trict Engineer shall be authorized to remove all such signs used in compli-
ance with regulations 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. How-
ever, 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 ordinance is no longer
in effect.
SECTION 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not more than two hundred dollars ($200)'.
SECTION 6. If any part of this ordinance be declared unconstitutional or
otherwise void by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall ir.
no way affect the validity of any of the remaining parts of this ordinance
unless the part held unconstitutional or void is inseparable from, and
spensable to, the operation of the remaining parts. The City Council herby
declares that it would have passed those parts of this ordinance which are
valid and would have omitted any parts which may be unconstitutional or void,
if it had known such parts were unconstitutional °or void at-the time of the
passage of this ordinance.
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CONSTRUCTION SPEED ZONE ORDINANCE
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 10th DAY OF August , 1971
APPROVED:
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ATTEST: gayor Pro Tem
City Secretary
I, Vada Ferris , 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
t.e City Council at a meeting held on August 10. $, 19—zl.
City Secretary
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