HomeMy WebLinkAbout551 07-25-1978ORDINANCE NO. 551
AN ORDINANCE ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMITS ESTABLISHED FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 167 AND 169 OF ARTICLE
XIX, R.C.S. 6701d, UNIFORM ACT REGULATING
TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION UPON CERTAIN STREETS
AND HIGHWAYS, OR PARTS THEREOF WITHIN THE
CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF EULESS
AS SET OUT IN THE ORDINANCE; DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF
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 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, with the City taking into consideration the width and condition of
the pavement and other circumstances 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 intersection 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 I.
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation
heretofore made as authorized by the provisions of Section 167 and 169
of Article XIX, R.C.S. 6701d, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways,
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 indicated for vehicles
traveling upon the named streets and highways, or parts thereof, described
as follows:
Eastbound Frontage Road Only
(a) From Station 333 +61.70 (West City Limits of Euless,
being also the City Limits of Bedford) easterly
1.018 miles to Station 387 +33.31 (intersection of
Main Street) at 40 miles per hour.
(b) From Station 865 +74 (approximately 450 feet east
of Main Street) easterly 0.749 mile to Station
905 +45 (East City Limits of Euless, being also
the City Limits of Fort Worth) at 40 miles per
hour.
II. Westbound Frontage Road Only
(a) From Station 386 +87.49 (intersection of Main Street)
westerly 2.294 miles to Station 265 +07.42 (West
City Limits of Euless, being also the City Limits
of Bedford) at 40 miles per hour.
SECTION II.
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
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 ($200.00).
SECTION III.
EMERGENCY CLAUSE
By the affirmative vote of four or more of its members, the City
Council declares that this is an ordinance for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, and is an emergency measure
within the meaning of Article II, Section 11, of the City Charter; and the
requirement that it be read at two meetings, as specified in such Section 11,
is hereby dispensed with.
SECTION IV.
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance
are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall
not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs
and sections of this Ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by
the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
SECTION V.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance shall become effective upon and after final passage
and publication as provided by the Euless City Charter and the laws of the
State of Texas, and the posting of appropriate signs giving notice thereof,
upon such streets and highways.
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON first and final reading on the 25th day of
July, 1978, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Euless,
Texas, by a vote of 5 ayes and 0 nays and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
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ATTEST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO F RM:
City Attorney
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