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ORDINAlfCE No.8so
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING
SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES PER HOUR ON PORTIONS
OF BALDWIN AVENUE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted out-
side of business and residental districts is other than is reason-
able or safe under the conditions found to exist upon the portions
of Baldwin Avenue hereinafter described, and it is hereby declared
that the prima facie speed limit on Baldwin Avenue between Hunting-
ton Drive and Colorado Blvd. in the City of Arcadia shall be 35
miles per hour.
. SECTION 2. That any person, firm or corporation Violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine
not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in
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the City Jail of said City of Arcadia, or in the County Jail of
the County of Los Angeles, State of California, at the discretion
of the Committing Magistrate, for a period not exceeding six (6)
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency
measure.for preserving the public peace, health and safety, and
shall take effect imm~diately upon its adoption. The following is
a s ta teman t of the reason for its urgency: The portions of Baldwin
Avenue hereinabove described were only recently opened to vehicular
traffic. Until an engineering and traffic investigation could be
made, an appropriate prima facie speed limit could not be ascertain-
ed. Now that such a study has been made, it is necessary that a
reduced prima facie speed limit be made applicable at once in
order to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of the in-
habitants of the City of Arcadia and the users of the aforesaid
portion of Baldwin Avenue.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
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this Ordinanee, and prior to the expiration or rifteen (15) days
from the passage thereof, shall eause the same to be published
once in the Areadia Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation,
published and circulated in the City of Areadia.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinanee was adopted
at a regular meeting or the City Council of the City or Arcadia,
held on the 17th day of June, 1952, by the affirlll8tive vote of at
least three Councilmen, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen Dow, Hulse, Kennett, Nottingham and 8ehmocker
NOES, None
ABSENT: None
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erk of the City of readia, Calif.
8IGNEDAND APPROVED this 17th day of June, 1952.
ATTEST:
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