O-113-9-71NO. 113
• SPEED ZONE ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS
ESTABLISHED FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE PROVISIONS
OF SECTION 169a OF ARTICLE 6701d OF VERNON'S TEXAS
CIV. STAT., UPON STATE HIGHWAY NO. S WHICH IS
LOCATED WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF ALLEN, AS SET OUT IN THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $200.00 FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, Section loge of Article 6701d of Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes provides that whenever the governing
body of the City shall determine upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation that prima facie
speed therein set forth is greater or less than is reason-
able 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 City, taking into consideration the
width and condition of the pavement and other circumstances
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
the not 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 ALLEN, TEXAS:
SECTION ONE:
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic Investi-
gation heretofore made as required and authorized by the
provisions of Section 169a of Article 6701d, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes, the following speed districts are
established and the following prima facie speed limits
for vehicles are hereby declared to be reasonable and
safe and such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate
of speed hereinafter set forth below:
A. STAIE HIGHWAY NO. 5 SOU'INDOUND TRAFFIC
District
No.
Description
Spsed
Limit
1
Beginning at the intersection of
60 HM
State Highway No. 5 and the North
City limits of the City of Allen;
Thence South a distance of 1.0893
miles.
i 2
Beginning at the South boundary of
55 NPH
Of atrlct No. 1; Thence South .850
Of a mile.
3
Beginniny at the South boundary line
Of District
45 NPH
No. 2; Thence South
.7 of a mile.
4
Beginning at the South boundary line
55 KMof
District No. 3; Thence South
.8 of a mile.
5
Beginning at the South boundary of
District No.
60 MYH
4; Thence South.685
miles to the South boundary line
r
Of the corpoate limits of the
City of Allen.
B. STATE
HIGHWAY NO S NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC
6
1r
Beginning at the intersection of State
60 NP11
Highway No. 5 and the South boundary
line of the
corporate limits of the
City of Allen; Thence North
.685
Of a mile.
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7 Beginning at the North boundary 55 NPH
. of District No. 6; Thence North
for .8 of a mile.
8 Beginning at the North boundary
45 MPH
of District No. 7; Thence North
for .7 of a mile.
9 Beginning at the North boundary
55 NPH
of District No. 8; Thence North
.85 miles.
10 Beginning at the North boundary
60 NPH
of District No. 9; Thence North
for 1.0893 miles to the North
boundary line of the corporate
limits of the City of Allen.
SECTION TWO:
That from and after the date of the passage
of this
Speed Zone Ordinance, no motor vehicle shall be
operated
along State Highway No. 5 within the corporate
limits of
the City of Allen in excess of the speeds set
forth above
as applicable to each District.
SECTION THREE:
Any City Official or Employee is authorized, upon
the direction of the Mayor, to cause to be erected
appropriate signs indicating such speed zone.
SECTION FOUR:
Any person, firm or corporation which violates any
of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction, may be fined any sum
not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00).
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SECTION FIVE; The Caption of this Ordinance shall be publish
one time in a weekly newspaper published in the City of Allen
• - and said Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its
passage and such publication.
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the 16th day of Septaabw
1971.
ATTEST:
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City of Allen
I, A. C. Story, City Secretary of the City of Allen,
Texas, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct eopy of Ordinance No. 113
adopted by the Citv Council of the City of Allen,
Texas,
on the 16th day of sapcsber , 1971.
To certify which, Witness my hand and lest of office
this the 16th day ofsept= 1971.
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