HomeMy WebLinkAbout562 02-27-1979ORDINANCE NO. 562
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 ON HIGHWAYS, UPON
THE BASIS OF AN ENGINEERING AND 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 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 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:
A. From Station 200 +82 (north city limits of Euless, being also
the south city limits of Grapevine) southerly 1.746 miles to
Station 293 +00 at 55 miles per hour.
B. From Station 293 +00 southerly 0.606 mile to Station 325 +00
at 50 miles per hour.
C. From Station 325 +00 southerly 1.679 miles to Station 413.63
(south city limits of Euless, being also the city limits of
Fort Worth) at 45 miles per hour.
1. School Crossing - From Station 330 +00 (500 feet
north of Midway Drive) southerly 0.348 mile to
Station 348 +40 (260 feet south of Trojan Trail)
at 35 miles per hour when so signed for school
crossing, 45 miles per hour all other times.
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
and publication as provided by the Euless City
State of Texas, and the posting or appropriate
upon such streets and highways.
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upon and after final passage
Charter and the laws of the
signs giving notice therof,
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING on the 27th day
of February, 1979, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Euless, Texas, by a vote of 4 ayes and 0 nays.
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City 4ttlrney
Mayor
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