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DRAFT fattorney\ordwork\current\ Traffic - Speed Zone Turner Pipe FM 137 October 19. 2006 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM, REASONABLE AND PRUDENT RATES OF SPEED ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREETS AND HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF PARIS; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; FIXING PENAL TIES FOR VIOLATION HEREOF; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, by authority and direction of the City Council of the City of Paris, Texas an engineering and traffic study and survey have been made by the Transportation Operations Office of the Texas Department of Transportation to determine the maximum, reasonable and prudent speeds for vehicles traveling upon the following named streets and highways and parts thereof, to facilitate the most effective use of said streets and highways and the safe and effective movement of vehicular traffic thereon; and, WHEREAS, such study and survey establishes, and it is so found by the City Council of the City of Paris, Texas, that the following are the maximum, reasonable and prudent rates of speed for vehicular traffic upon said streets and highways and parts thereof; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF P ARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That no person shall drive a vehicle upon a public road, street and highway in the City of Paris, Texas at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and circumstances then existing. Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speeds for compliance with the above requirement, the limits hereinafter set out shall be lawful but any speed in excess of the limits as hereunder set out for the streets and highways and portions thereof to which they apply shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent. Section 3. That on Highway 137 from intersection Business US 82-H and Bonham Street, in a southerly direction a distance of approximately 0.200 miles a speed limit ono (thirty) miles per hour at all times; thence southerly a distance of 0.400 miles a speed limit of35 (thirty-five) miles per hour at all times; thence southerly a distance of approximately 0.778 miles a speed limit of 45 (forty-five) miles per hour at all times; thence southerly a distance of approximately 0.200 miles a speed limit of 50 (fifty) miles per hour at all times; thence southerly a distance of approximately