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File #: 2024-0270    Version: 1 Name: Amend Code-Section 15-9. (a) to lower the speed limit on Fashion Boulevard and Duhe Drive in Fashion Plantation Estates Subdivision, Hahnville to twenty (20) mph
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 8/5/2024 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 8/19/2024 Final action: 8/19/2024
Enactment date: Enactment #: 24-8-3
Title: An ordinance to amend the Code of Ordinances to revise Chapter 15, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Section 15-9. Speed Limits (a) to provide an exception to the Twenty-five (25) Miles Per Hour Speed Limit, to lower the speed limit on Fashion Boulevard and Duhe Drive in Fashion Plantation Estates Subdivision, Hahnville, to twenty (20) miles per hour.
Sponsors: La Sandra D. Wilson
Indexes: Good Hope Plant. Subd., Norco, Traffic Code/Traffic Control
Code sections: Ch. 15. Sec. 15-9. - Speed limits
Attachments: 1. 2024-0270 7-2-24 LW letter to residents, 2. 2024-0270 7-23-24 LW email outcome, 3. 2024-0270 Final Ordinance 24-8-3

2024-0270

INTRODUCED BY:                     LA SANDRA D. WILSON, COUNCILWOMAN, DISTRICT I

ORDINANCE NO.  ____________

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An ordinance to amend the Code of Ordinances to revise Chapter 15, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Section 15-9. Speed Limits (a) to provide an exception to the Twenty-five (25) Miles Per Hour Speed Limit, to lower the speed limit on Fashion Boulevard and Duhe Drive in Fashion Plantation Estates Subdivision, Hahnville, to twenty (20) miles per hour.

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WHEREAS,                     paragraph (a) of Section 15-9 of the Code provides that it is unlawful to operate any motor vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per hour on parish streets; and,

WHEREAS,                     that Paragraph (a) of Section 15-9 has been amended to provide exceptions; and,

WHEREAS,                     the Parish Council desires to lower the speed limit on Fashion Boulevard and Duhe Drive in Fashion Plantation Estates Subdivision, Hahnville from twenty-five (25) miles per hour to twenty (20) miles per hour.

THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION I.                     That Chapter 15 Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Section 15-9. Speed Limits (a) of the Traffic Code is hereby amended as follows, with new text underlined and deleted text in strikethrough:

(a)                     It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per hour on any of the Parish streets, roads, highways and bridges,

EXCEPT:

(94)                     Fashion Boulevard and Duhe Drive in Fashion Plantation Estates Subdivision, Hahnville, speed limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour.

The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:

 

 

 

 

And the ordinance was declared adopted this ______ day of ____________, 2024, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.

Speed Limit - lower limit on Fashion and Duhe Hahnville.docx

 

 

CHAIRMAN:_________________________________________

SECRETARY:________________________________________

DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:____________________________

APPROVED:______________ DISAPPROVED:_____________

 

PARISH PRESIDENT:_________________________________

RETD/SECRETARY:__________________________________

AT: _______________RECD BY: ________________________