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<br />DRAFT <br /> <br />f:attomeylordworklcurrentltRAFFIC - Signal Light 20th NE & Pine Bluff <br />June 18, 2007 <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, <br />TEXAS, AMENDING THE TRAFFIC CONTROL MAP FOR THE CITY <br />OF PARIS AS ADOPTED BY SECTION 31-65(b) OF THE PARIS CODE <br />OF ORDINANCES, TO ADD A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL AT THE <br />INTERSECTION OF 20TH STREET NE AND PINE BLUFF STREET; <br />PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $200.00; MAKING <br />OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; <br />REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN <br />CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Paris Traffic Commission is charged with the responsibility <br />to study and evaluate traffic control devices for use on City streets and roadways; and, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, among those traffic control devices evaluated by the Traffic <br />Commission is the placement of stop signs and signal lights at various intersections <br />throughout the City; and, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Traffic Commission, at its regular meeting of June 5, 2007, <br />approved a request for an ordinance regulating a traffic signal being installed at the comer <br />ofNE 20th Street and Pine Bluff Street; and, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, all traffic signals in Paris are presently installed and maintained by the <br />Texas Department of Public Transportation and state law is already in place for traffic <br />control signals; and, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the citizens of the City of Paris, that the <br />Traffic Control Map ofthe City of Paris be amended to identify the new traffic signal light <br />and the same should be approved; <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS: <br /> <br />Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in <br />all things approved. <br /> <br />Section 2. That the Traffic Control Map adopted in Paragraph (b) of Section 31-65 <br />of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, be, and the same is hereby, <br />amended to include the signal light at the intersection of 20th Street NE and Pine Bluff <br />Street. <br /> <br />r" "T <br />