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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 4309-1964 - Establishing A School Zone On Chicago Ave, Speed Limit At 20 MPH. - 02/13/1964BDA:jlm 52-2-64 'Y4309 Repealed by Ordinance No. 4541 ORDINANCE NO. 4309 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL ZONE ON CHICAGO A VENUE; ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT AT 20 MILES PER HOUR DURING SCHOOL HOURS IN SAID SCHOOL ZONE: DEFINING "SCHOOL HOURS11: MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO PASS WITHIN SAID SCHOOL ZONE: PRESCRIBING A PENALT FOR VI9LATIONS: PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND DECLARING AN EMER- GENCY. WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Lubbock. upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation finds it necessary to alter prima facie speed limit established by Article 6701d,. Section 166 (a) 1, Vernonts Texas Civil Statutes as amended Acts 1963, 58th Legislature, page 455, Chapter 161,. within the area and at the location named and designated in the body of this Ordinance,. within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock and in the immediate vicinity of a school area during a period of time when the school is in session and school childr are going to or from the school and playground; and WHEREAS, the governing body finds it necessary to make provision for the regulation of moving vehicular traffic within such area regarding passing and stopp ing forth~ protection and safety of pedestrians crossing the streets within such area; and WHEREAS,. it is necessary to the immediate preservation of the public health and safety to provide for the immediate enactment of such measures con- stituting an emergency,. NOW THEREFORE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: SECTION 1. THAT the following designated location and area is declared t be school zones and the prima facie speed limit of thirty (30) miles per hour as established by .Article 670ld~ Section 166 {a) 1. Vernon~s Texas Civil Statutes, is hereby altered and changed to twenty { 20) miles per hour for all vehicles., during school hours as herein defined on the following described street, to-wit: 1. On Chicago Avenue beginning 186 feet South of 30th Street and extending North for 730 feet. SECTION 2. THAT the Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to cause the placement of traffic control signals and/ or signs at the approach to th schoo.l zone herein designated. The signs shall be placed at the most advantageous point to be conspicuous to approaching vehicular traffic. SECTION 3. "School hours" as that term is used herein,. shall be the hour between 7:30 A.M. and 4:30 P. M. of each Monday through Friday throughout the calendar year when the school nearest the school zone is in session. SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a vehicle through a school zone as designated and established herein during school hours in such a !l'lanner as to overtake and pass another vehicle by change of lane., being driven in the same direction upon the same street within said school zone by changing traffic lane. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a vehic e t h rough the school zones herein designated during school hours at a rate of speed in excess of the prima facie speed limits herein designated for such school zones. SECTION 6. Any person violating the prima facie speed limit established by this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined as prescribed by the provision of Article 6701d,. Section 143, Vernon1s Texas Civil Statutes~ and any person violatink any other Section of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not exceeding $200.00. SECTION 7. If any part or parts of this Ordinance shall be held unconstitu tional or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such part or parts shall be deemed a separate~ distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the remaining portions hereof. SECTION 8. That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances conflicting with any of the provisions hereof are hereby repealed insofar as such conflict exists. SECTION 9. That the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause publicatio 1 of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance together with the penalty clause as an alternative method provided by law. · SECTION 10. That the enactment of this Ordinance being necessary to the public safety and welfare. of the pedestrian use of the street in the school zone here in designated and established is hereby declared to be an emergency measure creating a public necessity that the rule providing that proposed ordinances be pre sented at two separate meetings be dispensed with and this Ordinance is declared t be an EMERGENCY MEASURE to take effect from and after the date of its first publication. AND IT IS SO ORDERED. Passed this 13th day of February ~ 1964.