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ORDINANCE NO. 598
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH RELATING TO THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMIT ON MAIN STREET BETWEEN 11TH STREET
AND CLAY STREET , ADDING SECTIONS 61711
6171.11 6171.2 AND 6171.3 TO THE HUNTINGTON
BEACH ORDINANCE CODE .
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The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
do hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1: That four new sections be added to the
Huntington Beach Ordinance Code , the same to be known as
Sections 6171, 6171.11 6171.2 and 6171.3 and to read respec-
tively as follows:
Section 6171: Main Street - llth Street to Clay Street:
Survey. The City Council does hereby find and determine , upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, that the prima
facie limit of 55 miles per hour is more than is reasonable or
safe upon Main Street between llth Street and Clay Street.
Section 6171.1: Prima Facie Speed Limit. The City
Council does hereby determine and declare the prima facie speed
limit of 35 miles per hour on Main Street between llth Street
and Clay Street is the most appropriate speed to facilitate
the orderly movement of traffic and is reasonable and safe.
Section 6171.2: Signs . The prima facie speed limit of
35 miles per hour upon Main Street between llth Street and Clay
Street shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice
of such prima facie speed limit are erected upon such street.
Section 6171.3: Chief of Police to Erect Signs. The
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Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to cause to
be erected signs of a type complying with the requirements of
the Vehicle Code of the State of California, on Main Street
between llth Street and Clay Street, designating a speed limit
of 35 miles per hour.
1 Section 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach News, a
weekly newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City
of Huntington Beach, Orange County, California; and thirty (30).
days after the adoption hereof the same shall take effect and
be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of lay ,
1953.
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Ord, 598
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) ss.
City of Huntington Beach )
I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified
and acting, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and
ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City,. do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach is five ; that the foregoing
ordinance was first read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held .on the 20th day of April , 19537
and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 4th day of may , 1953 , and was
passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a
majority of all the members of said City Council as follows:
AYES: Councilmen:
Wood,, Talbert, Langenbeek,. LeBard, Seabrid ge.
NOES: Councilmen:
None.
ABSENT : Councilmen:
Nonem
y Clerk and ._ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
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