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ORDINANCE NO. 90 - 71'
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 26,
SECTION 26-24 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE CITY OF BEAUMONT TO ADD A NEW SCHOOL
ZONE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING
FOR REPEAL AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
Section 1.
That Chapter 26, Section 26-24 of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of Beaumont be, and the same is hereby, amended to
establish maximum and minimum speeds in certain zones as follows:
Section 26-24: Speed limits Decreased in School Zones.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering
traffic investigation, that the speed permitted by state
law upon those streets, or portions of streets described
in the following schedule is greater than is reasonable
or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such
streets and it is hereby declared that the prima facie
speed limit upon those streets or portions thereof
described in the following schedule shall be decreased
as therein stated and the limits so declared shall be
effective at the times specified therein when signs are
erected giving notice thereof.
SCHEDULE A
In accordance with this section, and when signs are erected
giving notice thereof, the prima facie speed limit shall be
as twenty (20) miles per hour in the following zone between
the hours of 7:15 a.m. to 8: 15 a.m. and 2 :45 p.m. to 3 : 30
p.m. ; Monday through Friday on school days:
SCHEDULE A
SCHOOL ZONE SPEED LIMITS
Street Direction of
Travel Description
Homer N & S From a point 40 feet north of
the center line of House Road
to the Beaumont Independent
School District boundary of
Homer Street School.
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Section 2 .
That if any section, subsection, sentence clause or
phrase of this ordinance, or the application of same to a
particular set of persons or circumstances should, for any reason,
be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the
remaining portions of this ordinance, and, to such end, the various
portions and provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
Section 3 .
That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are repealed to the extent of the conflict only.
Section 4.
That any person who violates any provision of this
ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished, as provided in
Section 1-8 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaumont on
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this the day of �aue��z-C � , 1990.
- Mayor -
Evelyn M. Lord
THE STATE OF TEXAS X
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON X
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared
Evelyn M. Lord, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the
foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same for the
purposes and consideration therein expressed. OLL.
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� ,F��ird.y�, GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and seal of office this 20th day of November, m m
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STATE OF Texas COUNTY OF JEFFERSON
I hereby certify that this instrument was filed on
the date and time stamped hereon by me and was duly
recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property
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