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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES; TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds and declares that the conditions of traffic is such as to endanger the traveling public and pedestrians within the City of Jonesboro and that certain traffic control devices are needed and are to be placed on the following street.
(A) Speed limit on Brown’s Lane will be 40 mph, from Highland Drive to the Joe N. Martin Expressway.
SECTION 2: The drivers of all vehicles shall obey all traffic control signs per instruction on the face thereof.
SECTION 3: The Chief of Police or some other person designated by him is hereby directed to place and locate upon the above described streets, at the proper places, appropriate signs designating “40 MPH” as set out above and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to tear down, remove or mutilate such signs or violate the instruction on the face thereof.
SECTION 4: Every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00.
SECTION 5: All ordinances and/or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 6: It is found and declared by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas that due to increasing traffic congestion and lack of traffic control devices, that there is a great possibility that lack of these traffic control devices will cause danger to life and property; therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance being necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 16th day of April, 1979.