Ordinance - 625ORDINANCE NO. 625
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA DECREASING THE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT
UPON CERTAIN PUBLIC STREETS AND INCREASING THE
Aphakil MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT UPON CERTAIN PUBLIC STREETS.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation and survey that the speed per-
mitted by State law outside of business and residence districts as
applicable upon the following public streets within the incorporated
limits of the City of West Covina is more than is reasonable or safe
under the conditions found to exist upon such streets, and it.is
hereby determined and declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be
as herein set forth on those streets or parts of streets herein desig-
nated, when appropriate signs are .erected giving notice thereof:
Name of Street or Declared Prima Facie
Portion Af ec ed weed Limit
Azusa Canyon Road from San Bernardino Road
to the northerly City Limits of the City
of Azusa 35 miles per hour.
Francisquito Avenue from Orange Avenue to
California Avenue 35 miles per hour.
•Citrus Street from Garvey Avenue to the
northerly City Limits of the City of West
Covina 35 miles per hour.
Barranca Street, from Garvey Avenue to the
northerly City Limits of the City of West
Covina 35 miles per hour.
SECTION 2. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation and survey that a speed greater
than twenty-five miles per hour as presently applicable upon the following
public streets within the incorporated limits of the City of West Covina
would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be
reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets,
and it is hereby determined and declared that the prima facie speed
limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets or parts of
streets herein designated when appropriate signs are erected giving notice
thereof:
Name of Street or
Portion ec ed
Irwindale from
northerly City
West Covina
• Vincent Avenue
northerly City
West Covina
Garvey Avenue to the
Limits of the City of
from Garvey Avenue to the
Limits of the City of
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Declared Prima Facie
Speed Limit
35 miles per hour.
35 miles per hour.
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Azusa Avenue from the southerly City
Limits of the City of West Covina to
Garvey Avenue
Puente Avenue from the westerly City
Limits of the City of West Covina to
Azusa Avenue
35 miles per hour.
35 miles per hour.
SECTION 3. 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, or by imprisonment in the City Jail or
County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, -State of California, for a
period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by
law.
Passed and approved this llth day of May , 1959.
ayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES S&O
CITY OF WEST COVINA -
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN�, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
• do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 625 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 27th day of April , 1959. .That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly aTopTed and passeT_aT—a regular meeting of the
City Council on the llth day of May , 1959, by the following
vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Pittenger, Mottinger, Barnes, Mayor Brown
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT : Councilmen : None ROBERT FLOTTEN, CITY CLERK
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