2004-103ORDINANC NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, REPEALING ORDINANCE
NUMBER 96-273 AND AMENDING CHAPTER 18 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY
ADDING SECTION 18-73; ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS
ESTABLISHED FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION
CODE, SECTION 545.356 UPON TEASLEY LANE OR FM 2181 OR PARTS THEREOF,
WITHIN THE INCORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF DENTON; PROVIDING A
PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $200.00; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Ord'mance number 96-273 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances of
Denton, Texas is hereby amended by adding Section 18-73 regulating speed of vehicles on
TeasleyLane. Section 18-73 shallread as follows:
See. 18-73. Speed limits on certain roads and highways.
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation heretofore made as authorized by the
provisions of Transportation Code, Section 545.356, the following prima faeie speed limits
hereafter indicated for vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and safe;
and such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of speed indicated for vehicles traveling upon
the named streets and highways, or parts thereof, described as follows:
Highway Extent Speed Limit
Teasley Lane/FM 2181 From Dallas Drive to 35 mph
Savannah Trail
Teasley Lane/FM 2181 From Savannah Trail to 45 mph
Lillian Miller Parkway
Teasley Lane/FM 2181 From Wind River Lane to the . 50mph
south/easterly limits of the
City of Denton
SECTION 3. 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, the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares that
they would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity.
SECTION 4. That any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon
conviction, be fined a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). Each day that a
provision of this ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days fi.om the date of
its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be
pubhshed twice in the Denton Record-Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of Denton,
Texas, witlfin ten (10) days of the date of its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the /j~ day of ~ ,2004.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
HERBERT L. PROUTY, CITY ATTORNEY
BY:
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