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AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING AND ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL SAFETY ZONE, ON
WINDSOR FROM A POINT 250 FEET EAST AND 250 FEET WEST OF ITS
INTERSECTION WITH NORTH LOCUST AND ON NORTH LOCUST 250 FEET NORTH
AND 250 FEET SOUTH OF WINDSOR, REDUCING THE MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE
SPEED LIMIT FROM THIRTY (30) MILES PER HOUR TO TWENTY (20) MILES
PER HOUR, PROVIDING A PENALTY OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($200 00), PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, 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 Windsor
from a point 250 feet east and 250 feet west of its intersection
with North Locust and on North Locust 250 feet north and 250 feet
south of its intersection with Windsor and hereby determines that
the reasonable and safe maximum prima facie speed limit on said
streets be reduced from thirty (30) miles per hour to 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
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 III
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
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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 the day of , 1985
C WARY, MAYOR -V
CIT OF D' TON, TEXAS
ATTEST
HARL ELAL o UITY 'SECRET
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
DEBRA ADAMI DRAYOVITCH, CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
BY
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