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File #: 2022-0117    Version: 1 Name: Amend Ordinance No. 83-5-3, lower the speed limit on Allen Drive, Ama, to ten (10) mph
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 4/18/2022 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 5/2/2022 Final action: 5/2/2022
Enactment date: Enactment #: 22-5-7
Title: An ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 83-5-3, to lower the speed limit on Allen Drive, Ama, to ten (10) miles per hour.
Sponsors: Mary K. Clulee
Indexes: Allen Street Subd., Ama, Public Works (Dept. of), Traffic Code/Traffic Control
Code sections: Ch. 15. Sec. 15-9. - Speed limits
Attachments: 1. 2022-0117 Final Ord 22-5-7.pdf

2022-0117

INTRODUCED BY:                     MARY K. CLULEE, COUNCILWOMAN, DISTRICT II

ORDINANCE NO.  ____________

Title

An ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 83-5-3, to lower the speed limit on Allen Drive, Ama, to ten (10) miles per hour.

Body

WHEREAS,                     Traffic Control signs have been posted by the Department of Public Works since the adoption of Ordinance No. 82-10-9; and,

WHEREAS,                     on May 2, 1983, the St. Charles Parish Council approved Ordinance No. 83-5-3, amending Ordinance 82-10-9, Traffic Code for St. Charles Parish, to include those traffic control signs, devices and markings installed prior to adoption date of Ordinance 82-10-9; and,

WHEREAS,                     Exhibit “A” to Ordinance No. 83-5-3 indicates 15 mph sign on Allen Drive in Ama; and,

WHEREAS,                     Allen Drive in Ama is substandard with no shoulder, the current fifteen (15) miles per hour speed limit is unsafe for the existing conditions; and,

WHEREAS,                     in accordance with Section 15-5, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the St. Charles Parish Code of Ordinances, the Department of Public Works is hereby authorized to order the erection, removal and location of such traffic control signs, signals, devices and markings as provided in the chapter or any amendments thereto; and,

WHEREAS,                     the Parish Council desires to provide an exception to lower the speed limit on Allen Drive in Ama to ten (10) miles per hour.

THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION I.                     That Ordinance No. 83-5-3 is hereby amended to lower the speed limit on Allen Drive, Ama, to (10) 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 ____________, 2022, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.

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CHAIRMAN:_________________________________________

SECRETARY:________________________________________

DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:____________________________

APPROVED:______________ DISAPPROVED:_____________

 

PARISH PRESIDENT:_________________________________

RETD/SECRETARY:__________________________________

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