HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1978-024 ORDINANCE NO. �8-24
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9, CHAPTER 3
OR THE CITY CODE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE,
TEXAS SO AS TO RIX THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMITS ON CERTAIN DESIGNATED STREETS OF
GRAPEVINE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATION; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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��, WHERERS; the City Council of the City of Grapevine,
Texas has found and determined it necessary to fix the
speed limits in the City of Grapevine; and,
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 traff ic 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 considera-
tion the width and condition of the pavement and other circum-
stances on such portion of said street or highway, as well as
the usual traffic thereon, said governing body may determine
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, now therefore ,
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
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Grapevine, Texas; that, '
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Section 1. The City Manager is hereby instructed to have
twenty (20) mile per hour speed limit signs installed on the
streets listed below.
TWENTY (20) MILE PER HOUR SPEED ZONE
On Tanglewood Drive from the intersection of Timberline
to its existing dead end.
Section 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and up-
on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than
two hundred ($200) dollars .
Section 3. Al1 ordinances and parts of ordinances in
confliction herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 4. If any section or provision of this chapter
shall be declared invalid by account of competent jurisdic-
tion, such adjudication shall not affect the remaining sec-
''�'"" tions or portions of this chapter.
� PASSED AND APPROVED on this the 18 day of April , 1978.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY ECR
APPROVED AS TO L.
CITY ATTORNEY