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DRAFT F:A TTORNEY\ORDWORK\CURRENT\ Traffic - Speed Limits Ord August 1,2005 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 OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING PENAL TIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF; 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 hereinafter set out for the streets and highways and portions thereof to which they apply shall be prima facie evidence that the speed in not reasonable or prudent: 1. On FM Highway 79 from the Northwest City Limit of Paris, in a southeasterly direction a distance of approximately 0.613 miles, a speed limit of 55 (fifty-five) miles per hour at all times; thence southeasterly a distance of approximately 0.765 miles, a speed limit of 45 (forty-five) miles per hour at all times except that a school speed limit of30 (thirty) miles per hour will be effective on school days only at the school crossing zone, from ì I