HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #816 ORDINANCE No. 816
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH
ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO SPEED LIMITS
BY ADDING SECTIONS 6172.2 and 6172.3 TO
ARTICLE 617.
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do or-
dain as follows:
Section 1. The Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is here- .
by amended by adding Sections 6172.2 and 6172.3, which sec-
tions shall read in words and figures as follows:
Section 6172.2. Speed Limit on Gothard Street between
Wintersburg Avenue and Talbert Avenue. The City Council does
hereby find and determine, upon the basis of an engineering
and traffic survey, that the prima facie speed limit of 65
miles per hour on Gothard Street between Wintersburg Avenue
and Talbert Avenue is more than is reasonable and safe. There-
fore, the City Council does hereby determine and declare the
prima facie speed limit of 35 miles per hour on said portion
of Gothard Street is the. most appropriate speed to facilitate
the orderly movement of traffic and is reasonable and safe.
Section 6172.3. Signs. The prima facie speed limit of
35 miles per hour up.on Gothard Street between Wintersburg Aven-
ue and Talbert Avenue shall be effective when appropriate signs
giving notice of such prima facie speed limit are erected upon
said street. The Chief of Police is hereby. aut'horized .and
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directed to cause said signs to be erected.
Section 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the pass-
age 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, California, and thirty days
after the adoption thereof, the same shall take effect and
be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, this 20th day of February
1961.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City C rk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I, PAUL C. JONES, the duly elected, qualified and acting
City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio
Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby cer-
tify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing
ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 6tfi day of February _, 1961, and was
again read to said City Council at a regular meeting there-
of held on the loth day of 1961, and was passed
and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority
of all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Wells, Lambert, Stewart, Gisler
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Waite
City Clerk and ® -off icio Clerk of
the City Counc! of the -City of
Huntington Beach, California