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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 53 TRAFFIC, BY
REVISING SECTION 53-114, SPEED LIMIT WHEN ROAD OR ABUTTING
PROPERTY UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERANCE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING FOR
PENALTIES; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The code of ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi is amended by revising
Section 53-114, Speed limit when road or abutting property under construction or repair, to
read as follows:
CHAPTER 53. TRAFFIC
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Article V. Operation of Vehicles
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Sec. 53-114. Speed limit when road or abutting property under construction or
repair.
@lIt IS hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that
the maximum reasonable and prudent speed limit on any street, road, highway, bridge or
causeway within the city upon which construction, reconstruction or repair is in progress or
any construction on private property abutting any street, road or highway of the city in
connection with which construction work a portion of the street, road or highway is being
barricaded or used shall be as follows:
(1) Where the regular la'Nful m3ximum speed is above thirty (30) miles per hour, the
The maximum speed may be reduced in increments of five (5) miles per hour down
to thirty (30) miles per hour.
(2) Where the regular lawful m3ximum speed is loss than thirty (30) miles per hour,
the speed m3Y be reduced down to fifteen (15) miles per hour in inorements of five
(5) miles per hour"
fdt-illWhere the condition in the street, road, highway, bridge or causeway is
determined by the traffic engineer to require caution in the driving Hof any motor or
other vehicle thereon, the maximum speed may be reduced in increments of five
(5) miles per hour down is hereby limited to fifteen (15) miles per hour regardless of
the regular lawful maximum speed applicable"
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(QLSigns shall be posted in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices by the city manager, or such officers or employees of the city designated by the
city manager, 50 indicating the reasonable and prudent maximum speed limit as hereby
fixed, and it shall be and it is hereby made unlawful for any person to drive a motor or
other vehicle on or upon the street, road, highway, bridge or causeway 50 signed at a
speed greater than such maximum"
!.9 Where any detour of any portion of a designated street, road or highway is established,
the detour signed as herein provided as to speed limit shall be considered as part of the
street road or highway under construction or repair"
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SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section,
paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it is the
definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause,
phrase, word or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of
Corpus Christi as required by City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 4. Penalties are as provided in this Chapter"
SECTION 5. That upon written request of the Mayor or five council members, copy
attached, the City Council (1) finds and declares an emergency due to the need for
immediate action necessary for the efficient and effective administration of City affairs and
(2) suspends the Charter rule that requires consideration of and voting upon ordinances at
two regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and takes effect upon first reading
as an emergency measure this the 13th day of September, 2005.
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Arm~n~-
City Secretary
ATTEST:
Approved ~J---(...,. I , 2005
By: / \v," (~______
Joseph Hdrney ,)
Assistant City Attorney
For City Attorney
EFFEcnvEDATE
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Corpus Christi, Texas
__-<-3-\r-- day Of~~_ ,2005
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, an
emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting
upon ordinances at two regular meetings: I/We, therefore, request that you suspend said
Charter rule and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present
meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
Respectfully,
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Henry Garre ,Mayor
City of Corpus Christi
Council Members
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Henry Ga're' ~~
Brent Chesney Ii A~k
John E Marez () J!j,(
Melody Cooper CU!)L
Jerry Garcia (.:lp;~
Bill Kelly Lid;,
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Rex A. Kinnison
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
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Slate of Texas
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Ad # 5306613
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Before me, the undersigned. a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana
Hmoiosa, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is
SENIOR COLLECTOR of the Corpus Christi Caller- Times, a daily newspaper
published at Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in
f\ransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, ,Jim Hogg, ,Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg,
Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that
the publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the
dtlIlcxed is a true COpY, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and on
the World Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 19TH day(s) of
0~YfEMBER, 2005.
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SENIOR COLLECTOR
TWO (2 ) Time(s)
Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of
SEPTEMBER 20, 2005"
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Notary PubIic,{N ces County, Texas
Michelle Cabrera
Print or Type Name of Notary Public
My commission expires on March 19, 2008.
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MICHEl1..E JOYCE CABRERA
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES
Marcl119,200B
r A L' E R. TIM ES. September 19, 2005. Monday.
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"NOTICE OF PASSAGE
OF ORDINANCE NO
026455
Ordinance amendirg
the Code (:1
Ordinances Chapt,;;-r
53 - Traffic. by revising
Section 53-114, speea
limit when road or
abutting property unde,
construction or repatr
providing for penalties
This ordinance was
passed and approved
by the City Council oi
the City of Corpus
Christi on September
13, 2005.
\ Is! Armando Chapa,
: City Secreta ry J.