Ordinance - 638ORDINANCE NO. 638
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA INCREASING THE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT
UPON LARK ELLEN AVENUE.
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 a speed greater
than twenty-five miles per hour as presently applicable upon the
following public street 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 street, and it is hereby determined and declared
that the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth
on the street herein designated when appropriate signs are erected
giving notice thereof.
Name of Street or Declared Prima Facie
Portion Affected Speed Limit
Lark Ellen Avenue from the southerly
City limits of the City of West Covina
to Garvey Avenue 35 miles per hour
SECTION 2. 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 3. 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 31st day of August 1959.
Mayor o Tem
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 638 was regularly
introduced and plated upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 24th day of August , 1 ,�'.„ at, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at ai/k�i'1' lP n%eting of the
City Council on the 31st day of August , 1959, by the following
vote, to -wit:
!, AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Pittenger, Mottinger, Barnes
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Mayor Brown
City Clerk