HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 02.10.1970 - Zoning for Speed Limits177
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, ZONING FOR TRAFFIC
AND RATE OF SPEED THEREIN, ON STATE HIGHWAY 29 IN THE CITY LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN: DEFINING SPEEDING AND FIXING A PENALTY
THEREFORE: DECLARING WHAT MAY BE A SUFFICIENT COMPLAINT IN PROSE-
CUTIONS I7REMER: WITH A SAVING CLAUSE REPEALING CONFLICTING LAWS
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.
Section I
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an Engineering and Traffic investigation
that the prima facie maximum speed limit on those protions of 12th Street over I,
which State Highway 29 is routed in the City Limits of Georgetown, is as hereinafter
stated, which prima facie limit shall be effective at all times and signs will be
erected giving notice of the prima facie speed limit so declared to -wit.
Speed Zone
State Highway 29
For East Bond Traffic
Beginning at the City Limits of Georgetown, the same being engineer's centerline
Cj station 54+00.6 to the City Limits of Georgetown, the same being engineer's center-
line station 43+23.6, a distance of 0.204 mile, a maximum pirma facie speed limit
O of 50 miles per hour.
From the west city limits of Georgetown, the some being engineer's centerline
station 26+40.6 backward = 0+00 forward to Engineer's c,asterline station 1+15,
a distance of 0.022 mile a maximum perma facie speed limit of 50 miles perhour.
From Engineer's centerline station 1+15 to Engineer's centerline station
70+45, a distance of 1,313 miles, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 35 miles
per hour.
From Engineer's centerline station 70+45 to the East City Limits of Georgetown,
the same being engineer's centerline station 71+63.3 backward = 2+30 forward,
a distance of 0.022 mile, a maximum perma facie speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
For West Bound Trafifie
Beginning at the East City Limits of Georgetown, the some being engineer's center-
line station 71+63.3 hackward = 2+30 forward, to Engineer's centerline station
70+45, a distance of 0.022 mile, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 50 miles
per hour.
From Engineer's centerline Station 70+45 to Engineer's centerline station 1+15,
a distance of 1.313 miles, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 35 miles per hour.
From Engineer's centerline Station 1+15 to west city limits of Georgetown, the
same being engineer's centerline station 26+40.6 backward = 0+00 forward, a
distance of 0.022 mile a maximum prima facie speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From the City Limits of Georgetown, the same being engineer's centerline station
43+23.6 to the City Limits of Georgetown, the same being engineer's centerline
station 54+00.6. a distance of 0.204 mile, a maximum perms facie speed limit of
50 miles per hour.
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 vehicle 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 St r said portion of said street,
as ffxed 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 to exceed 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 athan
that fixed by City Ordinance for the street and for the zone therof, that such
motor vehicle was so being driven upon, if zones.
That in prosecutions under this ordinance, for the offense of speeding, the complaint,
if in other respects sufficient in form, shall as to the portion thereof seeking
to achnowledge the offense, be sufficient if it is substance alleges that the
defendant did while driving a motor vehicle in said City commit the offense of
"Speeding."
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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 portionsoof 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 provideethat an ordinance
shall be read at three epperate meetings of the City Council before final
passage, be suspended; and that the said rules are hereby suspended, and
that ordinance is here and now passed, and that it is ordered that it take
effect from and after its passage and publication.
Passed and approved this -the loth day of February A.D. 1970.
Attest:
Claud Eads, City Secretary
Jay C. Sloan, Mayor,City of Georgetown