2009-018-ORD SPEED RATE ESTABLISHED ON HWY 271

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ORDINANCE NO. 2009 -018 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM, REASONABLE AND PRUDENT RATES OF SPEED ON HIGHWAY US 271 FROM NORTH CITY LIMIT OF PARIS IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO US 82 AND BUSINESS US 271- IN THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE, A PENALTY CLAUSE; 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 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 COUNCIL 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 below 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 U.S. Highway 271 from the north city limit of the City of Paris, in a southerly direction a distance of approximately 2.766 miles, a speed limit of seventy (70) miles per hour daytime and sixty -five (65) miles per hour nighttime at all times as Authorized by Transportation Commission Minute Order No. 111807; thence southerly a distance of approximately 0.300 miles, a speed limit of sixty (60) miles per hour at all times; thence southerly direction a distance of approximately 0.558 miles, a speed limit of forty -five (45) miles per hour at all times to the intersection US 82 and Business US 271 -13; thence in a southeasterly direction from the intersection of Business US 82 and US 82 a distance of approximately 0.306 miles, a speed limit of fifty -five (55) miles per hour at all times; thence southeasterly a distance of approximately 1.560 miles to the Southeast city limit of Paris, a speed limit of sixty (60) miles per hour at all times. Page 1