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DRAFT <br /> <br />LISA\ORDINANCES\CURRENT\Speed Zone FM 195 Ord <br /> September 5, 2001 <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, <br />PARIS, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM, REASONABLE, AND <br />PRUDENT RATES OF SPEED ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CERTAIN <br />STREETS AND HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF <br />PARIS; PROVIDING FOR A FINE 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, by authority and direction of the City Council of the City of Paris an engineering <br />and traffic study and survey have been made by the Transportation Operations Office of the Texas <br />Department of Transportation to determine the maximum, reasonable, and prudent speeds for vehicles <br />traveling upon certain portions of certain streets and highways and public places within the city of <br />Paris to facilitate the most effective use of said streets and highways and the safe and effective <br />movement of vehicular traffic thereon; and, <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, such study and survey established and it is hereby so found by the City Council <br />of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, that the maximum, reasonable, and prudent rates of speed for <br />vehicular traffic upon said streets and highways and parts thereof are as stated herein; NOW, <br />THEREFORE, <br /> <br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, <br />TEXAS: <br /> <br /> Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things <br />approved. <br /> <br /> Section 2. That no person shall drive a vehicle upon a public road, street, and highway in the <br />city of Paris, Texas, at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and <br />circumstances then existing. <br /> <br /> Section 3. That, except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speeds for <br />compliance with Section 2 hereof, the limits hereafter set out shall be lawful, but any speed in excess <br />of the limits hereinafter set out for the streets and highways and portions thereof to which they apply <br />shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent. <br /> <br /> Section 4. That, on FM Highway 195 from the intersection of Business US 82-H in a <br />northeasterly direction for approximately 1.300 miles, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles per <br />hour at all times; thence northeasterly for a distance of approximately 0.432 miles, the speed limit <br /> <br /> <br />