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For West Bound Traffic
From Georgetown East City Limit, Station 71+63.3, to Station 27{x0 a distance
of 0.845 mile, a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
From Station 27+00 to Georgetown West City Limit, Station 0+00, a distance
of 0.511 mile, a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour.
F. M. Highway 1460- For South Bound Traffic
From Station 17130 to Station 40fOO a distance of 0.430 mile, a maximum
speed of 30 miles per hour.
From Station 40400 to Georgetown South City Limit, Station 5093.2 , a
distance of 0.207 mile, a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour.
For North Bound Traffic
From Georgetown South City Limits, Station 50493.2, to Station 4000 a
distance of 0.207 mile, a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour.
From Station 40400 to Station 17+30 a distance of 0.430 mile, a maximum
speed of 30 miles per hour.
That the maximum rate of speed for motor vehicles upon each of the remaining
streets bf the City of Georgetown shall remain at the rate of speed fixed by
other existing city ordinances.
Section II
That all of the Streets of this City, and all portions of any such streets,
are hereby declared to be public streets, and that the driving or operating
of any motor fehicle on or along any portion of any street of this City at
a rate of speed that is greater than the maximum rate of speed for said
portion of said street, as fixed by this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, which is named, "The Offense of Speeding", and that the said
offense is punishable by fine in any sum not less than one dollar ($1.00)
no more than two hundred dollars (200.00) . That the use of the word
"Speeding" shall be sufficient to designate the said offense, and shall mean
that a motor vehicle has been driven upon a public street, at a greater
rate of speed than that fixed by City Ordinance for the street and for the
tone thereof, that such motor vehicle was so being driven upon, if toned.
That in prosecutions under this ordinance, for the offense of speeding, the
complaint, if in other respect sufficient in form, shall as to the portion
thereof seeking to acknowledge the offense, be sufficient if it in substance
alleges that the defendant did while driving a motor vehicle in seid City
commit the offense of "Speeding."
Section III
That should any section, or any portion of any section hereof be decreed to
be void, the invalidity of such section or such portion thereof shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and that
each section and each portion thereof, not decreed to be invalid shall remain
valid and enforceable.
That all ordinances and parts of ordinances that are in conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
That the fact that prompt action should be taken in the regulation of traffic&
on the streets of this City, in the manner provided for in this ordinance
creates an emergency requiring that the rules that provide that an ordinance
shall be read at three separate meetings of the City Council before final pas-
sage; be suspended, and that the said rules are hereby suspended, and this
ordinance is here and now passed, and that it is ordered that it take effect
from and after its passage and publication.