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e e e RESOLUTION e WHEREAS, the City of La Porte has heretotore passed and approved Ordinance No. 261, regulating traffic upon the public streets of the City of La Porte; and WHEREAS, such Ordinance provides that the City Council shall, by resolution, determine and designate the character ot all official traffic signs and Signals and shall designate the locatio where the same shall be installed; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of La Porte, Texas has determ1ned, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic in- vestigation that the maximum reasonable and prudent speed over and along that section ot West Main Street, between the intersection of Broadway Street and West Main street and the intersection of I Tenth street and West Main Street, 1s Twenty (20) miles per hour, taking into consideration the width, condition of the pavement and the amount of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, over, along and accrols such section of West Main Street; NOW, THEREFORE, BB IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS THAT: The operation of a motor vehicle or any other vehicle, ! however propelled, over and along West Main street, between Broad. y ~ Street and Tenth Street, at a speed in excess ot twenty miles per hour i8 prohib1ted and that such section ot West Main street shall be a "20 mile per hour" zone for traffic. The Police Committee is hereby authorized and instructed to place 20 mile speed signs at the intersection ot West Main stre t and Broadway Street and at the intersection ot West Main street a Tenth Street. e' "--:::::::'--.._....."' ....,~'....