O-76-308 - 2/12/1976AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, ZONING FOR TRAFFIC AND RATE
OF SPEED THEREIN, ON F.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 BDUND ROCK.
Section I
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an Engineering and Traffic in-
vestigation that the prima facie maximum speed limit on those portions
of F.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
F.M. Highway 620
For West Bound Traffic
Beginning at Station 538+00 to Station 503+00, a distance of 0.663 mile,
a prima facie maximum speed limit of 40 miles per hour.
From Station 503+00 to Station 575+80, the same being the west city limit
of Round Rock, a distance of 0.515 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit
of 55 miles per hour.
School Speed Zone
From Station 488+70 to Station 479+15, a distance of 0.181 mile, a prima
facie maximum speed limit of 35 miles per hour when signals are flashing.
For East Bound Traffic
Beginning at Station 475+80, the same being the west city limit of Round Rock,
to Station 503+00, a distance of 0.515 mile, a prima facie maximum speed limit
of 55 miles per hour.
From Station 503+00 to Station 538+00, a distance of 0.663 mile, a prima facie
maximum speed limit of 40 miles per hour.
School Speed Zone
From Station 479+15 to Station 488+70, a distance of 0.181 mile, a prima facie
maximum speed limit of 35 miles per hour when signals are flashing.
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 is 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 offiense 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 ordinances
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 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 /2. day of
ATTEST:
City cretary
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