HomeMy WebLinkAbout601 10-23-1979ORDINANCE N0. 601
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 deternine 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.
TEXAS:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS,
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:
Control: 94 -2 - State Highway No. 10, Tarrant County
I. EASTBOUND LANE ONLY
a) From Station 677 +28 (west city limits of Euless, being also
the city limits of Hurst) easterly 1.567 miles to Station
760 +00*(approximately 700 feet west of Pamela Drive) at
50 m.p.h.
b) From Station 760 +00 easterly 2.424 miles to Station 888 +00
(approximately 100 feet east of Dickey Drive) at 45 m.p.h.
1. School crossing - From Station 827 +00 (just east of
Ridgecrest Drive) easterly 0.436 mile to Station
850 +00 (just west of Martha Street) at 35 m.p.h. when so
signed for school crossing; at 45 m.p.h. at all other
times.
c) From Station 888 +00 easterly 0.330 mile to Station 905 +45
(east city limits of Euless, being also the city limits of
Fort Worth) at 50 m.p.h.
II. WESTBOUND LANE ONLY
a) From Station 905 +45 (east city limits of Euless, being also
the city limits of Fort Worth) westerly 0.502 mile to
Station 878 +95 (approximately 250 feet east of Millican
Drive) at 50 m.p.h.
b) From Station 878 +95 westerly 2.253 miles to Station
760 +00 (approximately 700 feet of Pamela Drive) at 45 m.p.h.
1. School crossing - From Station 850 +00 (just west of
Martha Street westerly 0.436 mile to Station 827 +00
(just east of Ridgecrest Drive) at 35 m.p.h. when so
signed for school crossing; 45 m.p.h. all other times.
c) From Station 760 +00 westerly 1.567 miles to Station
677 +28 (west city limits of Euless, being also the city
limits of Hurst) at 50 m.p.h.
SECTION II.
PEMALTY 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 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.
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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 unconstitu-
tional 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 or appropriate signs giving notice thereof, upon such
streets and highways.
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING on the 23rd day of
October, 1979, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Euless,
Texas, by a vote of 4 ayes and 0 nays.
ATTEST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS T FORM:
City Attorney
APPROVED:
Mayor
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