2017-379s:Uegahour d0cuments\ordinances\17\speed zone amendment 380 ordinance (amendment 1).doc
*RDINANCE
WHEREAS, Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code provides that whenever
the governing body of the City shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation that any prima facie speed therein set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or
safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a
street or highway within the City, taking into consideration the width and condition of the
pavement and other circumstances on such portion of said street or highway, as well as the usual
traffic thereon, said governing body may determine and declare a reasonable and safe prima facie
speed limit thereat or thereon by the passage of an ordinance, which shall be effective when
appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or other place or part of
the street or highway; NOW, THEREFORE,
SECTION 1. Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances of
Denton, Texas is hereby amended by modifying Section 18-73 regulating speed of vehicles on
US 380 or University Drive. Section 18-73, Item XVIII shall read as follows:
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A. 65 mph From the Western City Limits to Masch Branch Road.
B. 50 mph From Masch Branch Road to 500 feet west of Cindy Lane/N.
Western Boulevard.
C. 45 mph From 500 feet west of Cindy Lane/N. Western Boulevard to
Bonnie Brae Street.
It 40 mph Fromthe Bonnie ,,- Street to Locust
E. 40 mph From Locust Street/US 77 to Bell Avenue.
F. 45 mph From Bell Avenue to Loop 288 northbound ramp.
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H. 60 mph From Riverside Drive to the easterly city limits.
SECTION 2. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon
conviction, be fined a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), unless the violation
occurs in a work zone and then the penalty shall not exceed Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00).
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall be cumulative of all other ordinances of the City of
Denton defining school zones and school bus loading zones and shall not repeal any of the
provisions of said ordinances except in those instances where provisions of those ordinances are in
direct conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. If in 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 5. This Ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the date of its
passage,
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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 ,5' day of , 2017.
WATTS, -MAYOR
ATTEST:
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
APPR E'D AS '1'0 LEGAL FORM:
AARON LEAL, CITY ATTORNEY
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