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ORDINANCE NO. 638
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH RELATING TO THE PRD(L FACIE SPEED
LIMIT ON 17TH STREET BETWEEN OCEAN AVENUE
and NAIN STREET, and ADDING SECTIONS
6172 and 6172.1 TO THE
HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do
ordain as follows:
Section 1: That two new sections be added to the
Huntington Beach Ordinance Code, the same to be known as
Sections 6172 and 6172.1 and to read respectively as fol-
lows:
Section 6172s 12th Street - .Ocean &venue �.Lg Maims
S&reet. Survey. The City Council does hereby find and de-
termine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey
that the prima facie speed limit of 55 miles per hour is
more than is reasonable or safe upon 17th Street between
Ocean Avenue and Main Street and that the prima facie speed
limit of 35 miles per hour on 17th Street between Ocean
Avenue and Main Street is the most appropriate speed to facil-
itate the orderly movement of traffic and is reasonable and
safe.
Section 61_ 72.1: Prima Facie Speed Limit,
The prima facie speed limit of 35 miles per hour is hereby
established upon 17th Street between Ocean Avenue and Main
Street and shall be effective when appropriate signs giving
notice of such prima facie speed limit are erected upon
such street. The 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
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Ord. No. 638
California on lath Street between Ocean Avenue and Main
Street designating a speed limit of 35 miles per hour.
Section 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the pas-
sage 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 cir-
culated in the City of Huntington Beach, Orange County,
California; and thirty (30) .days after the adoption here-
of the same shall take effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1�ay of _- December
1955.
/ Mayor
ATTEST:
City Cle
By
D'VUty City Clerk
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Ord No. 638
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 ea-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 5__t h
day of December , 1955,and was again read to said
City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the
112th_day of December 9 1955, 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:
Bartlett, Lockett , Terry, Seabridge
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
LeBard
Col Ay Clerk an a-officio Clerk
the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
By
eputy City Clerk
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