HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 06/31 25mph Speed Limit
ORDINANCE NO. 06/31
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF UNIVERSITY PARK, TEXAS, AMENDING
ARTICLE 10.1000 BY ALTERING THE MAXIMUM LAWFUL PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMIT TO 25 MPH ON: AMHERST, STANFORD, PURDUE, HANOVER, AND BRYN
MAWR BETWEEN THE POINTS OF THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH HILLCREST
AND BOEDEKER; AIRLINE AND DURHAM BETWEEN THE POINTS OF THEIR
INTERSECTIONS WITH LOVERS LANE AND SOUTHWESTERN; AND, DUBLIN
BETWEEN THE POINTS OF ITS INTERSECTIONS WITH AMHERST AND
BOEDEKER; PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF SIGNS; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the 30 mph speed limit on the within
named streets is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist thereon; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enact this ordinance to establish a speed limit that is
reasonable and safe under the conditions; Now, Therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UNIVERSITY
PARK, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Article 10.1000 of the Code of Ordinances, City of University Park, is
amended by renumbering subsections (7) and (8) and adding a new subsection (9) to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 10.1000 SPEED LIMITS
(a)...
(7) fifteen (15) miles per hour on Park Street from University Blvd., south to McFarlin
Blvd.;
(8) twenty-five (25) miles per hour on:
(i) Amherst from Hillcrest to Boedeker;
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(ii) Stanford from Hillcrest to Boedeker;
(iii) Purdue from Hillcrest to Boedeker;
(iv) Hanover from Hillcrest to Boedeker;
(v) Bryn Mawr from Hillcrest to Boedeker:
(vi) Airline from Lovers Lane to southwestern;
(vii) Durham from Lovers Lane to Southwestern;
(viii) Dublin from Amherst to Boedeker; and
(9) thirty (30) miles per hour on all other streets within the City not otherwise specified.
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SECTION 2. That the Director of Public Works or his designee is authorized and
directed to erect and maintain such signs as may be necessary to give notice of the speed limits
adopted hereby. Such signs shall be erected in the form and manner required by Chapter 10 of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of University Park. When the Director has erected and installed
such signs, he shall file a report with the City Secretary and Chief of Police stating the types of
signs, locations, and when such signs were installed.
SECTION 3. All ordinances of the City of University Park in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction in the municipal court of the City of
University Park, Texas, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars
($200.00) for each offense.
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SECTION 5. That should any sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or section
of this ordinance be adjudged or held to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, the same shall not
affect the validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any part or provision thereof, other than the part
decided to be invalid, illegal or unconstitutional.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage
and the publication of the caption as the law in such cases provides, provided however, that the
speed limits established hereby shall have no force or effect until official traffic control devices
shall have been erected as provided herein and by the requirements of Chapter 10 of the Code of
Ordinances.
DULY PASSED by the City Council ofthe City of University Park, Texas, on the 24th
day of October 2006.
C Y ATTORNEY
(RLD/IO-18-06)
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