(B)
The driving or operating of any motor vehicle on or along any portion of a public street of the city at a rate of speed that is greater than the maximum rate of speed fixed by this traffic code shall be a violation of this traffic code. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of § 70.02 or Schedules I and II of Chapter 72 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor known as the offense of speeding and shall, upon conviction, be fined in an amount not to exceed $200.
(C)
Any person convicted of an offense under Chapter 70 and Chapter 72 of this code, or an offense under Section 545.066, Texas Transportation Code, while driving or operating a motor vehicle within a school zone as described in Schedules I and II of Chapter 72 of this code, shall, upon conviction, pay as court costs $25 in addition to other taxable court costs.
(1)
The
money collected under this subsection shall be collected in the same
manner that other fines and taxable court costs in the case are collected;
and
(2)
The
money collected under this subsection in a municipal court case shall
be used for a school crossing guard program or shall be deposited
in an interest-bearing account or expended for programs designed to
enhance child safety, health, or nutrition, including child abuse
prevention and intervention and drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
(D)
Above
notwithstanding, it shall not be a defense in a prosecution under
this traffic code that there was no sign, or that such sign was not
sufficiently legible or in a proper position to be seen by the defendant
or by an ordinarily observant person.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80; Am. Ordinance 260-87-08-11, passed 8-11-87; Ordinance
292-88-10-25, passed 10-25-88; Am. Ordinance 316-90-04-10, passed 4-10-90; Am. Ordinance 330-91-01-08, passed 1-8-91; Am. Ordinance 530-99-02-23, passed 2-23-99; Am. Ordinance 611-00-12-12, passed 12-12-00; Ordinance 657-02-01-08, passed 1-08-02; Am. Ordinance 662-02-02-12, passed 2-12-02)
