HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances (103)-04/02/1959
ORDINANCE NO.~03
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM LEGAL
SPEEDS UPON CERTAIN HIGHWAYS AND STREETS OR
PARTS THEREOF WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMIT
OF THE TOWN OF COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS, AS SET
FORTH IN THIS ORDINANCE AND PROVIDING A
PENALTY OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $ 200.00
FOR THE VIOLATION OF TIllS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, Section 8 of Article 827a, Vernons Penal Code
of the State of Texas, provides that whenever the governing
body of the Town 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 within the town, taking
into consideration the width and oondition of the pavement and
other ciroumstances on such portion of said street or highway,
as well as the usual traffic thereon, said governing body may
determine and deolare a reasonable and safe prima faoie speed
limit thereat or thereon by the passage of an ordinance, whioh
shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof
are erected at such intersections or other place or part of
the street or highway.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF COLLEYVILLE,
TEXAS:
I.
THAT the following prima faoie 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) On S. B. No. l~l from the West City Limit of Colleyville
at Centerline Survey Station 30+25.0 to the East City
Limit of Colleyville at Centerline Survey Station
286+05.a, 40 miles per hour.
'2.
THE Town Counoil of the Town of Colleyville declares and
fixes the above maximum speed limits and the District Engineer
is hereby authorized to proceed with the erection of the
appropriate signs.
3.
THAT it is hereby declared that the construction project
on S. H. ~o. 121 has necessitated the enactment of this ordinance
for the safety and well being of those traversing S. q. No. 121
in Colleyville. Therefore, the above regulations shall be in
effect after the passage of this ordinance and the erection of
the proper sign; and, this shall remain in effect until the
completion and acceptance of the said construction project by
the Highway District Engineer or until such time as the con-
struction job has progressed to a stage whereby, in the opinion
of the Highway District Engineer, traffic may safely travel the
construction project, or portions thereof, at the rate of speed
posted prior to the construction. The Highway District Engineer
will have the authority to replace the construction speed zone
signs with speed zone signs re-establishing the speed zoning
prior to construction and the placement of such signs shall be
evidence of the governing speed zone or zones. The completion
and/or acceptance of the said construction project by the Highway
District Engineer 8hall cancel the provisions of this ordinance
and the Highway District Engineer shall be authorized to remove
all such signs used in compliance with the regulations set forth
in this ordinance.
4.
THAT any ordinance or any part thereof in direct conflict
with this ordinance is hereby superseded and the part of the
ordinance in conflict herewith shall be null and void so long
as this ordinance is in effect. However, any ordinance or part
of an ordinance superseded by this ordinance shall automatically
be reinstated in force upon the date of the completion and/or
acceptance of the said construction project when this ordinance
is no longer in effect.
5.
THAT any person violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than two
hundred ($200.00) dollars.
6.
THAT if any part of this ordinance be declared unconstitutional
or otherwise void by a court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall, in no way, effect the validity of any of the
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remaining parts of this ordinance unless the part held unoon-
stitutional or void is inseparable from, and indispensable to,
the operation of the remaining parts. The Town Council hereby
declares that it would have passed those parts of this orrnnanoe
which are valid and would have omitted any parts which may be
unoonstitutional or void, if it had known such parts were
unconstitutional or void at the time of the passage of this
ordinance.
PASSED and APPROVED this 2nd d~of April, A. D. 1959.
APPROVED:
S/gfd E. R. EUDALY
.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
s / ~ / <! J!ENRY BEHRENS .L.-!Q\fN _~ ECRETAR Y