1624 ORD AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 1495 OF COP

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ORDINANC E NO. 1624 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1495 OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, PA5SED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1959, AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1594, PAS5ED BY THE CITY COUNCIL QN JULY 9, 1962; REGULATING THE SPEED OF M4- TOR VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF PARI5, LAMAR COI7NTY, TEXA5; PRE5CRIBING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION HEREOF; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCE5 AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CaN- FLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CQUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS: 5ection 1. That Ordinance No. 1495 and Ordinance No. 1$94~ be, and the same are hereby amended, by designating herein speeds for certain areas within the City Limits, recently annexed to the City of Paris, by adding to Ordinance No. 1594 the fallowing portions of highways located within the City of Paris: (a) It shall be unlawful for any persan to operate or drive any motor or other vehicle at a rate of speed in excess of that specified for the following streets and portions of streets: (1) On Clarksville Street (U. S. Highway 271) Easterly from the Old City Limit Line to the T. & P. Railway Right of W ay, at the Under Pass, a distance of 0.625 miles a speed limit of 50 miles per hour at all times as evidenced by the attached plan which is hereby approved and made a part hereof. (2) On Lamar Avenue (U. S. Highway 82 East) Easterly from the Old East City Limit Line to 600 feet beyond the center line of the outside loop of Loop 286, a distance of 0.385 miles a speed limit of 50 miles per hour at alI times, as evidenced by the attached plan which is hereby approved and made a part hereof. (3) On Bonham Street (U. S. Highway 82 W est) from the Old City Limit Line Eastward to the present City Limit Line, a distance of 0.462 miles a speed limit of 50 miles per hour at all times as evidenced by the attached plan which is hereby approved and made a part hereof. (4) On Farm -to -Market Road 195, from the Old City Limit Line North Eastward to a point 0.07 miles North East of Loop 286, a speed limit of 40 miles per hour, and North Eastward to the present City Limit Line a distance of 0. 148 miles a speed limit of 50 miles per hour, as shown by the attached plan which is hereby approved and made a part hereof. (5) On 19th Street, N. W. , Northward from the Old City Limit Line to the present City Limit Line a speed limit of 45 miles per hour. (6) On Farm-to -Market Road 79 leading W est where the same leaves 19th Street, N. W. to the present City Limit Line a speed of 60 miles per hour in daytime and 55 miles per hour at night a distance of 0. 260 miles as shown by the attached plan which is hereby approved and made a part hereof.