(a) Use restricted.
The city council does hereby establish
that it shall be unlawful for any driver of any vehicle to use or
operate, or cause to be used or operated, within the corporate city
limits, any mechanical exhaust device designed to aid in braking or
deceleration of any vehicle that results in excessive, loud, unusual
or explosive noise from such vehicle, otherwise known as engine braking
or “jake braking.”
(b) Penalty.
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine in the amount established by the general penalty provided in section
1.01.009 of this code.
(Ordinance 2012-16-4 adopted 4/16/12; Ordinance adopting 2020 Code)
(a) All of the streets of this city, and all portions of any such streets, are hereby declared to be public streets and the driving or operating of any motor vehicle on or along any portion of any street of this city at a rate of speed that is greater than the maximum rate of speed for said portion of said street, as fixed by city ordinance, shall be a misdemeanor, which is named “the offense of speeding,” and the said offense is punishable by a fine in the amount established by the general penalty provided in section
1.01.009 of this code. The use of the word “speeding” shall be sufficient to designate the said offense, and shall mean that a motor vehicle has been driven upon a public street at a greater rate of speed than fixed by city ordinance for the street and for the zone thereof that such motor vehicle was so being driven upon, if zoned.
(b) In prosecutions under this section for the offense of speeding, the
complaint, if in other respects sufficient in form, shall as to the
portion thereof seeking to acknowledge the offense be sufficient if
it in substance alleges that the defendant did while driving a motor
vehicle in the city commit the offense of “speeding.”
(Ordinance 2018-33 adopted 11/19/18; Ordinance adopting 2020 Code)
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation heretofore
made as authorized by the provisions of the Texas Transportation Code,
chapter 545, section 545.356, the following prima facie 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:
(1) FM 1542:
MP 4.226 east 1.928 miles to MP 6.154, 50 mph.
MP 6.154 east 0.906 miles to MP 7.060, 35 mph.
MP 7.060 east 1.786 miles to MP 8.846, 50 mph.
School zone: MP 6.516 east 0.227 miles to MP 6.743, 20 mph when
flashing, 35 mph all other times.
(2) FM 2257:
Control Section 2737-1, 7.516 miles, MP 9.980 to MP 17.496,
55 mph.
Control Section 2737-2, 0.063 miles, MP 0.000 to MP 0.063, 55
mph.
(3) South Cardinal Road: Within the city limits, 20 mph.
(4) State Highway 199: Within the city limits, 60 mph.
(5) All other roads within the city, 30 mph.
(Ordinance adopted 9/9/96; Ordinance adopted 11/2/98; Ordinance adopted 4/5/02; Ordinance 02-20-2012 adopted 2/20/12; Ordinance 2018-16 adopted 7/16/18)
The prima facie maximum speed limit on those portions of streets
in Scenic Wood Estates routed in the city, which prima facie maximum
speed limit shall be effective at all times, shall be as described
in the following table. Signs will be erected giving notice of the
prima facie maximum speed limit so declared.
Signs
|
Latitude
|
Longitude
|
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Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.97
|
-97.5566
|
Stop
|
32.97
|
-97.5566
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9702
|
-97.5579
|
Slow children playing
|
32.97
|
-97.5587
|
Slow children playing
|
32.9699
|
-97.5603
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9737
|
-97.5619
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9752
|
-97.5668
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9733
|
-97.5685
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9725
|
-97.5631
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9724
|
-97.5624
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9724
|
-97.5624
|
Stop
|
32.9724
|
-97.5624
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9751
|
-97.5637
|
Wooded Way
|
32.9751
|
-97.5637
|
Stop
|
32.9751
|
-97.5637
|
Speed limit 25
|
32.9729
|
-97.5637
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9725
|
-97.5638
|
Wooded Way
|
32.9725
|
-97.5638
|
Stop
|
32.9725
|
-97.5638
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9725
|
-97.5656
|
Shady Pond Ln.
|
32.9725
|
-97.5656
|
Stop
|
32.9725
|
-97.5656
|
Speed limit 20
|
32.9729
|
-97.5656
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9751
|
-97.5656
|
Shady Pond Ln.
|
32.9751
|
-97.5656
|
Stop
|
32.9751
|
-97.5656
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9872
|
-97.5385
|
Hidden Branch Ln.
|
32.9872
|
-97.5385
|
Stop
|
32.9872
|
-97.5385
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9729
|
-97.5678
|
Hidden Branch Ln.
|
32.9729
|
-97.5678
|
Stop
|
32.9729
|
-97.5678
|
Scenic Wood Dr.
|
32.9707
|
-97.5626
|
Horizon View Ct.
|
32.9707
|
-97.5626
|
Stop
|
32.9707
|
-97.5626
|
Backwood Ct.
|
32.9751
|
-97.5691
|
Stop
|
32.9751
|
-97.5691
|
(Ordinance 2018-33 adopted 11/19/18)