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DRAFT Attorney\ordwork\current\Traffic - Speed Zone Ord - FM 79 2008 ORDINANCE N0. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM, REASONABLE AND PRUDENT RATES OF SPEED ON FM 79 FROM THE NORTHWEST CITY LIMITS SOUITH TO BUSINESS US 82/BONHAM STREET IN THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE, A PENALTY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A111 EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, by authority and direction of the City Council of the City of Paris, Texas an engineering and traffic study and survey has 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 COUIVCIL OF THE CITY OF 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 and any speed in excess of the limits as hereinafter 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 FM Highway 79 from the Northwest Ciry Limit of the City of Paris, in a southeasterly direction a distance of approximately 0.153 miles, a speed limit of sixty (60) miles per hour at all times; in a southeasterly direction a distance of approximately 0.460 miles, a speed limit of fifty-five (50) miles per hour at all times; thence southeasterly a distance of approximately 0.765 miles, a speed limit of forty-five (45) miles per hour at all times except that a school zone speed limit of thirty (30) miles per hour will be effective on school days within the designated school zone, from approximate highway mile point 20.778 to mile point 20.967 only during the following hours: Page 1 - (~0006"1