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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS,
ZONING FOR TRAFFIC AND RATE OF SPEED THEREIN,
ON AIRPORT ROAD IN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF GEORGETOWN: DEFINING SPEEDING AND FIXING
A PENALTY THEREFORE: DECLARING WHAT MAY BE
A SUFFICIENT COMPLAINT IN PROSECUTIONS HERE-
UNDER: WITH A SAVING CLAUSE REPEALING LAWS
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.
Section I
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an Engineering and Traffic
investigation that the prima facie maximum speed limit on those
portions of the below listed streets routed in the city limits of
co Georgetown, is as hereinafter stated which prima facie maximum speed
co limit shall be effective at all times and signs will be erected
d. giving notice of the prima facie maximum speed limit so declared to -wit:
SPEED ZONES
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Q Airport Road:
Beginning at the intersection of the West Service Road of IH -35 and
continuing on Airport Road to the northwest city limits of the City
of Georgetown, a prima facie maximum speed limit of 40 miles per
hour for traffic travelling in each direction.
Section II
That all of the streets of this City, and all portions of any such streets,
are hereby declared to be public streets and that the driving or operating
of any motor vehicle on or along any portion of any street of this City at
a rate of speed that is greaterthan the maximum rate of speed for said por-
tion of said street, as fixed by this ordinance shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, which is named "The Offense of Speeding", and that the said offense
is punishable by fine in any sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
That the use of the work "Speeding" shall be sufficient to designate the
said offense, and shall mean that a motor vehicle has been driven upon a
public street at a greater rate of speed than that fixed by City Ordinance
for the street and for the zone thereof, that such motor vehicle was so
being driven upon, if zoned.
That in prosecutions under this ordinance, for the offense of speeding, the
complaint, if in other respects sufficient in form, shall as to the portion
thereof seeking to acknowledge the offense, be sufficient if it in substance
alleges that the defendant did while driving a motor vehicle in said City
commit the offense of "Speeding".
Section III
That should any section or any portion of any section thereof be decreed
to be void, the invalidity of such section or such portion thereof shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and
that each section and each portion thereof not decreed to be invalid shall
remain valid and enforceable.
That all ordinances and parts of ordinances that are in conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
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That the fact that prompt action should be taken in the regulation of traffic,
on the streets of this City, in the manner provided for in this ordinance
created an emergency requiring that the rules that provide that an ordinance
shall be read at three separate meetings of the City Council before final
passage, be suspended; and that the said rules are hereby suspended, and
this ordinance is here and now passed, and that it is ordered that it take
effect from and after its passage and publication.
Passed and approved this the 12 day of January 1982.
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Jp n C. Doerfle , Mayor
ATTEST:
Jim Colbert, City Secretary