HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 73-14 - Setting Traffic Speeds on Hwy 29329
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 THEREFOR; DECLARING WHAT MAY BE A SUFFICIENT
COMPLAINT IN PROSECUTIONS HEREUNDER; WITH A SAVING CLAUSE
REPEALING CONFLICTING LAWS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.
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It is hereby determined upon the basis of an Engineering and Traffic investigation that the
prima facie maximum speed limit on those portions of State Highway 29 routed in the
City Limits of Georgetown, is as hereinafter stated, which prima facie maximum speed limit
shall be effective at all times and signs will be erected giving notice of the prima facie max-
imum speed I imi t so declared to-wi t.
Speed Zone
State Highway 29
For Eastbond Traffic
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Beginning at the City Limit of Georgetown at station 54+00.6 to the City Limit at Station
O 43+23.6,a distance of 0.204 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
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From the City Limit at Station 0+00 to Station 1+15, a distance of 0.022 mile, a prima
facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From Station 1+15 to Station 58+30, a distance of 1.082 miles, a prima facie maximum speed
limit of 35 miles per hour.
From Station 58+30 to Station 70+45, a distance of 0.:230 mile, a prima facie maximum speed
I imi t of 40 miles per hour.
From Station 70+45 to the East City Limit of Georgetown at Station 71+63.3, a distance
of 0.022 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
School Speed U mit Zone
Beginning at Station 32+00( to Station 42+00, a distance of 0.189 mile, a prima facie
maximum speed limit of 20 miles per hour from 7:30 A.M. to 8:30 A.M., from 11:30 A.M.
to 12:30 P.M., and from 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. on school days when posted.
For Westbound Traffic
Beginning at the East City Limit -of Georgetown at Station 71+63.3 to Station 70+45, a
distance of 0.022 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From Station 70+45 to Station 58+30, a distance of 0.230 mile, a prima facie maximum
speed limit of 40 miles per hour.
From Station 58+30 to Station 1+15, a distance of 1.082 miles, a prima facie maximum
speed limit of 35 miles per hour.
From Station 1+15 to the Ci ty Limi t of Georgetown at Station 0+00, a distance of 0.022 mi le,
a prima facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From the City Limit of Georgetown at Station 43+23.6 to the City Limit of Georgetown at
Station 54+00.6, a distance of 0.204 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit of 50 miles per
hour.
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School Speed Zone
Beginning at Station 42+00 to Station 32+00, a distance of 0.189 mile, a prima facie
maximum speed limit of 20 miles per hour, from 7:30 A.M. to 8:30 A.M., from 11:30 A.M.
to 12:30 P.M., and from 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. on school days when posted.
SECTION 11
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 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 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 than
that fixed by City Ordinance for the street and for the zone thereof, that such motor
vehicle was so being driven upon, if zoned.
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 acknowledge
the offense, be sufficient if it in substance alleges that the defendant did while driving a
motor vehicle in said 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 remain-
ing 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 seperate meetings of
the City Council before final passage, 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.
Passed and approved this the 12th day of November A.D. 1973.
ATTEST:
City) tart'' �J e E. Craw
eorgetown