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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 8727-1985 - Auth. Changing Prima Facie Speed Limit For All Vehicles On Erskine St. - 02/14/1985'I .. I! II "' l i l ;. First Reading February 14, 1985 Agenda Item #29 Second Reading February 28, 1985 Agenda Item #8 JWF:js ORDINANCE NO. 8727 AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THE ALTERING AND CHANGING OF THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT FOR All VEHICLES ON THE FOLLOWING STREET IN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS, TO-WIT: A PORTION OF ERSKINE STREET AS HEREINAfTER DESCRIBED IN THE BODY OF THIS ORDINANCE; AUTHORIZING THE PLACING Of SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, PRESCRIBING A PENALTY; PROVIDING fOR PUBLICATION; REPEALING All ORDINANCES IN CONfliCT HEREWITH; PROVIDING THAT STREETS OR HIGHWAYS NOT SPECifiCALLY SET fORTH HEREIN SHALL NOT BE AfFECTED BY THE PROVISIONS HEREOf AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE Of All OTHER PRIMA fACIE SPEED LIMIT ORDINANCES EXCEPT THOSE WITH WHICH IT SPECifiCALLY CONfliCTS; AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE. WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of lubbock, as authorized by Article 6701d, §169(b) Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, finds that certain prima facie speed limits on certain streets are different from what is reasonable or safe and should be altered and the preservation of public health and safety required alteration of said prima facie speed limits as hereinafter set forth, NOW THEREfORE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL Of THE CITY Of LUBBOCK: SECTION 1. THAT the prima facie speed limit established by Article 6701d, §166(a)(1)--Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes as altered and changed for all vehicles on the following designated highways or streets in the corporate limits of the City of lubbock, lubbock County, Texas, as shown below, to-wit: A. A 40 MPH speed limit zone on both sides of Erskine Street beginning at the West side of North Indiana Avenue and extending West to a point 100 feet West of the center line of North Knoxville Avenue. B. A 50 MPH speed limit zone on both sides of Erskine Street beginning at a point 100 feet West of the center line of North Knoxville Avenue and extending to the East side of Quaker Avenue. SECTION 2. THAT the City Manager is authorized and directed to cause the placing of signs so as to clearly define the limits of the prima facie areas set out in this Ordinance. SECTION 3. THAT any person, firm or corporation violating the prima facie speed limit established by this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined any sum not to exceed TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS. -L SECTION 4. THAT the City Secretary is authorized and directed to cause publication of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance together with the penalty as an alternative method of publication as provided by law. SECTION 5. THAT all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances conflicting with any of the provisions hereof are hereby repealed insofar as such conflict exists. SECTION 6. THAT all highways or streets not specifically set forth in the preceding sections hereof shall not be affected by the provisions hereof, and this Ordinance shall be cumulative of all other prima facie speed limit Ordinances except those with which it specifically conflicts. SECTION 7. THAT should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, the remainder of this Ordinance shall not be affected thereby. AND IT IS SO ORDERED. Passed by the City Council on first reading this 14th day of February 1985. Passed by the City Council on second reading this 28th February 1985. - 2 - ' I ' J j THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF LUBBOCK L-16500 Before me DorothY RUlli II a Notarv Public in and for Lubbock Countv. Texas on this dav personally appeare.d Twi Ia Auf ill' AccOunt Manal!e r of the S~uthwestern Newsp~ pers Corporation. publishers of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal -Morning. Evening and Sunday. who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that said newspaper has been published continuously for more than fifty-two weeks prior to the rirst insertion of this __ L..,.e..,.g._.e.._IL.-:uN.,.o'-'t ... i...,c""'e,.__ _________ _ -----------...,...----:-~ No. 534908 at Lubbock County. Texas and the attached print- ed copy of the Lel!al Notice is a true copy of the original and was printed in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on the following dates: --:-::-:::"M=-t=e:..:;r;-:;c;-:;h::... . ...::2=-=--' --=-9..:.•-.:::1:;;.:l9:....;8:....:5~--__,..-------- 264 Warda @ TOt Per vord = $184.80 LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Southwestern Newspapers Corporation Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1.1... __ day of _ _...Hu;aurur:lllJb~.~.-....,......_, 19~ FORM58-10 ORDINANCE 1110.17211 , .. AN (!RCINAHCE .CANC(;LI.IIIIG ·.AUTHORITY AND APPROVAL r FOR A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT URI> STREET ANC AVENUE H AND AUTHORIZING THE RE• iMOVAL OP SAID TRAFFIC SIG-NAL AS AN OPERATIVE TRAF· :! t'IC SIONAL. l)~~M~ OOROTHY RUSSELL Not;uy Public ln And For lbe State 01 Te~as· My Commi~sion Expires Nov. 9, 1988