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File #: 2012-0270    Version: Name: Lower the speed limit on Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands to Fifteen (15) Miles Per Hour
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 8/6/2012 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/20/2012
Enactment date: 8/20/2012 Enactment #: 12-8-12 REPEALED
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 Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands to Fifteen (15) Miles Per Hour.
Sponsors: Paul J. Hogan
Indexes: Des Allemands (Bayou), Town of, Traffic Code/Traffic Control
Code sections: Ch. 15. Sec. 15-9. - Speed limits
Attachments: 1. 2012-0270 Final Ord 12-8-12
Related files: 2012-0306, 2012-0307
2012-0270
INTRODUCED BY:      PAUL J. HOGAN, PE, 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 Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands to Fifteen (15) Miles Per Hour.
Body
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 Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands which is a single lane dead end road.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I.      That Section 15-9 of the Traffic Code is hereby amended to add No. 70 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:
(70)      Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands, speed limit shall be Fifteen (15) miles per hour.
Vote
The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
 
 
 
 
And the ordinance was declared adopted this ______ day of __________, 2012, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
Speed Limit Dufrene Lane in Des Allemands
 
 
 
 
CHAIRMAN:______________________________________________
SECRETARY:_____________________________________________
DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:_________________________________
APPROVED:______________ DISAPPROVED:__________________
 
PARISH PRESIDENT:______________________________________
RETD/SECRETARY:_______________________________________
AT: _______________RECD BY: _____________________________