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Show An Ordinance AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION SEC-TION 10-2-6 (A) of the PLEASANT GROVE CITY CODE REGULATING SPEED OF VEHICLES ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS IN PLEASANT GROVE CITY; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE EF-FECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PLEASANT GROVE CITY, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, as follows: Section 10-2-6 (A) is hereby amended to read as follows: SPEED REGULATIONS: REGULA-TIONS: No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway high-way at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions con-ditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing. In every event speed shall be so controlled as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance conveyan-ce on or entering the highway in compliance with the legal requirements requiremen-ts and duty of all persons to use due care. (A) SPEED LIMIT: Where no special hazards exist, the following speed shall be lawful, but any speed in excess of said limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful: 1. Twenty (20) miles per hour when passing a school recess or while children are going to or leaving school during opening and closing hours. 2. Twenty-five (25) miles per hour in any business, commercial or residential district with the exception of those streets or areas where a different speed limit has been declared applicable by express ordinance or-dinance of this City, when signs are in place giving notice thereof. STATE OF EMER- GENCY: In the opinion of the City Council of Pleasant Grove City an emergency exists with respect to the enforcement of certain police powers of Pleasant Grove City, and it is therefore necessary for the preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of Pleasant Grove City that this ordinance take effect immediately upon its passage and publication as provided by Utah law. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage and publication as provided by Utah law. Passed by the City Council of Pleasant Grove City this 18th day of July, 1978. (s) W. Cornell Haynie Mark Johnson Mayor City Recorder ATTEST: STATE OF UTAH) County of Utah I ss. I, Mark Johnson, City Recorder of Pleasant Grove City, Utah, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a complete, true and correct copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council of Pleasant Grove, Utah on the 18th day of July, 1978, entitled: "An ordinance amending the provisions of Section 10-2-6 (A) of the Pleasant Grove City Code regulating speed of vehicles on public highways high-ways in Pleasant Grove City; declaring an emergency and providing an effective date." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of Pleasant Grove City, Utah this 18th day of July, 1978. Mark Johnson (SEAL) City Recorder. Published in PI. Grove Review July 27, 1978. |