HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 793-96 02-27-1996
• ORDINANCE NO. 793-96
AN ORDINANCE ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMITS ESTABLISHED FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 167 AND 169 OF ARTICLE XIX,
R.C.S. 6701d, UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC ON
HIGHWAYS, UPON THE BASIS OF AN ENGINEERING
AND TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION UPON CERTAIN
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS, OR PARTS THEREOF,
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
RICHLAND HILLS AS SET OUT IN THE ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING A PENALTY OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED
$200.00 FOR VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
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 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, with 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 govern 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 RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation heretofore made as authorized by
the provisions of Section 167 and 169 of Article XIX, R.C.S. 6701d, Uniform Act Regulating
Traffic on Highways, the following prima facie 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:
SH 121 (Control Section 363-03):
From City Limits at Mile Point 3.095 northeast 1.595 miles to City
Limits at Mile Point 1.500, zoned at 60 miles per hour.
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• II.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than two
hundred dollars ($200.00).
This ordinance supersedes all previous ordinances pertaining to the above referenced highway.
III.
Saving Clause. That Chapter 10, Section 8, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Richland Hills, Texas, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as amended by this
ordinance.
IV.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and
if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid
or unconstitutional by the valid judgement or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
• Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
V.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage
and publication as provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the laws of the State of
Texas.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of the
Richland Hills City Council on the 27th day of February 1996, by a vote of 5 ayes, ~ nays,
and 2 abstentions.
APPROVED:
C.F. Kelley, Mayor
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• ATTEST:
t
C
''TBrri Willis City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
James A. Cribbs, City Attorney
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