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File #: 2017-0165    Version: 1 Name: Lower the speed limit on Wenger Road in Des Allemands to fifteen (15) miles per hour
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 5/15/2017 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 6/5/2017 Final action: 6/5/2017
Enactment date: Enactment #: 17-6-1
Title: An ordinance to amend the Code of Ordinances to revise Chapter 15, Section 15-9, to provide an exception to the Twenty-five (25) Miles Per Hour Speed Limit, to lower the speed limit on Wenger Road in Des Allemands to fifteen (15) miles per hour.
Sponsors: William Billy Woodruff
Indexes: Des Allemands (Bayou), Town of, Traffic Code/Traffic Control
Code sections: Ch. 15. Sec. 15-9. - Speed limits
Attachments: 1. 2017-0165 Final Ord 17-6-1

2017-0165

INTRODUCED BY:                     WILLIAM “BILLY” WOODRUFF, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT IV

ORDINANCE NO.  ____________

Title

An ordinance to amend the Code of Ordinances to revise Chapter 15, Section 15-9, to provide an exception to the Twenty-five (25) Miles Per Hour Speed Limit, to lower the speed limit on Wenger Road in Des Allemands to fifteen (15) 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 provide an exception to lower the speed limit on Wenger Road in Des Allemands.

THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION I.                     That Section 15-9 of the Traffic Code is hereby amended to add No. 84 as follows:

(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:

(84)                     Wenger Road, speed limit shall be fifteen (15)                                                                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 __________, 2017, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.

2017-0165 Speed Limit -Wenger Road

 

 

CHAIRMAN:______________________________________________

SECRETARY:_____________________________________________

DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:_________________________________

APPROVED:______________ DISAPPROVED:__________________

 

PARISH PRESIDENT:______________________________________

RETD/SECRETARY:_______________________________________

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