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AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING AND ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL SAFETY SPEED
ZONE ON PAISLEY DRIVE FROM A POINT APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET WEST
OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH MACK DRIVE TO A POINT 130 FEET EAST OF
MACK DRIVE, AND ON MACK DRIVE FROM THE SOUTHERN CURB LINE OF ITS
INTERSECTION WITH LEE DRIVE TO THE SOUTHERN CURB LINE OF DOUBLE
OAK STREET ITS INTERSTINTHE
MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIM OT FROMH THIRTY (30) TOMACK DRIVE,REDUCING TWENTY (20)
MILES HOUR,EXCEED TWO
HUNDREDEDOLLLARS ($0200DING 00),APROVIDINGPENALTYOA SEVERABILITY A FINE NOTOCLAUSE, AND
DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I
Based upon an engineering and traffic investigation, the
City Council hereby designates and establishes a school zone on
Paisley Drive from a point approximately 200 feet west of its
intersection with Mack Drive to a point 130 feet east of Mack
Drive, and on Mack Drive from the southern curb line of its
intersection with Lee Drive to the southern curb line of Double
Oak Street at its intersection with Mack Drive, and hereby
determines that the reasonable and safe maximum prima facie
speed limit on said portions of Paisley Drive and Mack Drive is
twenty (20) miles per hour when school is in session between the
hours of 7 30-9 00 A M and 2 30-4 00 P M
SECTION II
When signs are erected giving notice thereof and when school
is in session at the Robert E Lee Elementary School, the
reasonable and safe maximum prima facie speed limit on said
portions of Paisley Drive and Mack Drive shall be reduced from
thirty (30) to twenty (20) miles per hour
SECTION III
An individual adjudged guilty of exceeding this speed limit,
when signs are erected giving notice thereof, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred
Dollars ($200 00)
SECTION IV
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence,
clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the
City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it
would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such
invalidity
SECTION IV
That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14)
days from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is
hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be
published twice in the Denton Record -Chronicle, the official
newspaper of the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of
the date of its passage
PASSED AND APPROVED this theeqiO��day of , 1987
RAY ST P` NS, MAYOR
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
ATTEST
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ACT G CIT SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
DEBRA ADAMI DRAYOVITCH, CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
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