(a)
Between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays of each week, the following location is hereby designated a public place under the terms and conditions as set forth herein: 2801 Olton Road, Plainview, Hale County, Texas, or more properly described as College Hill Addition, Plainview, Block 86, 36' x 752', herein referred to as the Box Parking Lot.
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle upon the Box Parking Lot at a speed that is greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances than existing, and the speed limit specified in this section shall be the lawful speed limit, and any speed in excess of the limits specified and authorized by law shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful.
(c)
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation study heretofore made, the prima facie speed limit of 10 miles per hour is determined and declared to be the reasonable and prudent speed limit upon the Box Parking Lot, and the rate of 10 miles per hour is hereby fixed as the speed limit for vehicles traveling upon the Box Parking Lot between the hours of 8:00 p.m. each Friday until 12:00 a.m. each Saturday next following and between the hours of 8:00 p.m. [each Saturday] to 12:00 a.m. each Sunday next following, continuing for as long as said parking lot is leased to the city pursuant to Resolution R89-160.
(d)
The chief of police or his designee, except as otherwise directed from time to time by the city council, shall have the power and is hereby authorized to regulate the operation and parking of vehicles within the Box Parking Lot during the times such parking lot is used as a public place. Such authority shall include the power to erect or place proper signs, markers, lights, or other devices indicating, prohibiting or limiting parking, restricted speed areas, one-way traffic, restrictions or limitations on vehicular traffic, through or arterial rights-of-way, stop signs, or U-turns, and other signs or markers indicating the place and manner of operating or parking vehicles.
(e)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(2000 Code, sec. 24-164)