O-70-303 - 11/19/1970COMMISSION
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DEWITT C. GREER, CHAIRMAN
HERBERT C. PETRY, JR.
GARRETT MORRIS
TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Austin, Texas 78767
November 9, 1970
Subject: Speed Zoning
Control 683-1
R.M. Road 620
Williamson County
Honorable Dale Hester
Mayor - City of Round Rock
Round Rock, Texas
Dear Mayor Hester:
STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
J. C. DINGWALL
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IN REPLY REFER TO
FILE NO.
We recently conducted a study of the speed on R.M. Highway 620
in the City of Round Rock and find that there should be some
adjustments in the existing speed zones.
Attached is a copy of the speed zone strip map which reflects the
results of the study and also the recommended speed zones. Also
attached is four copies of a recommended City Ordinance for
establishing these speed zones.
When the Council has passed this Ordinance, please return three
copies to this office and we will proceed with erecting the
necessary signs.
If we can be of any further assistance, please feel free to call.
Very truly yours,
T. K. Wood
District Engineer
Billy M. Schnerr
Sr. Traffic Engineer
BMS/ljb
Encl.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, ZONING FOR TRAFFIC AND RATE
OF SPEED THEREIN, ON R.M. HIGHWAY 620 IN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
ROUND ROCK; DEFINING SPEEDING AND FIXING A PENALTY THEREFOR; DECLARING WHAT
MAY BE A SUFFICIENT COMPLAINT IN PROSECUTIONS HEREUNDER; WITH A SAVING CLAUSE
REPEALING CONFLICTING LAWS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK.
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 R.M. Highway 620 routed in the City Limits of Round Rock, is as hereinafter
stated, which prima facie maximum speed limit shall be effective at all times
and signs will be erected giving notice of the prima facie maximum speed limit
so declared to -wit.
Speed Zone
R. M. Highway 620
For West Bound Traffic
From Engineer's Station 538+00 to Engineer's Station 503+00 a distance of 0.663
mile, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 40 miles per hour.
From Engineer's Station 503+00 to Engineer's Station 486+14, a distance of 0.319
mile, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From Engineer's Station 486+14 to the West City Limits of Round Rock the same
being Engineer's Station 475+80, a distance of 0.196 mile, a maximum prima
facie speed limit of 60 miles per hour.
For East Bound Traffic
From the west city limits of Round Rock the same being Engineer's Station 475+80
to Engineer's Station 486+14, a distance of 0.196 mile, a maximum prima facie
speed limit of 60 miles per hour.
From Engineer's Station 486+14 to Engineer's Station 503+00, a distance of
0.319 mile, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 50 miles per hour.
From Engineer's Station 503+00 to Engineer's Station 538+00, a distance of 40
miles per hour, a maximum prima facie speed limit of 40 miles per hour.
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 greater than the maximum rate of speed for said portion of said
street, as fixed by this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, which is
named "The Offense of Speeding", and that the said offense in punishable by
fine in any sum not to exceed Two -hundred dollars ($200..00). That the use
of the word "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 hereof 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.
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 creates 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 that 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 /'2j day of
ATTESTS
cilkViW
Cit Secretary
A.D. 197d
Mayor, City of