2006-043-ORD-TX-Dot, rate of speed HWY US 82

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ORDINANCE NO. 2006-043 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 PARIS, 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 US 82 from the West City Limit of Paris, in an easterly direction a distance of approximately 0.542 miles, a speed limit of 70 (seventy) miles per hour daytime and 65 (sixty-five) miles per hour nighttime at all times as Authorized by Transportation Commission Minute ; thence easterly a distance of approximately 0.708 miles, a speed limit of 65 (sixty-five) miles per hour at all times as Authorized by Transportation Commission Minute ; thence easterly a distance of approximately 0.420 miles, a speed limit of 55 (fifty-five) miles per hour at all times; thence in a northeasterly direction a distance of approximately 5.085 miles, a speed limit of 60 (sixty) miles per hour at all times, thence southeasterly a distance of