Subject: 10604/Code/24-242(3)/SpeedLimits-ResidentialAreas
Date: Thu, 17 May 1990 11:50:00 -0500


                               ORDINANCE NO. 10604
                 
                 
                 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE, 
                 PART II, SECTION 24-242(3), RELATIVE TO SPEED 
                 LIMITS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
                 
                                                     
                 
                 
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE 
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Chattanooga City Code, Part 
       II, Section 24-242(3), be and the same is hereby amended by 
       deleting subsection (3) in its entirety and substituting in lieu 
       thereof a new subsection (3) as follows:
            (3)	 Twenty-five (25) miles an hour in a residential 
                 district; provided that on streets and parts of 
                 streets within public housing projects where it has 
                 been determined upon the basis of an engineering 
                 and traffic investigation that the speed 
                 therein above provided is more than is necessary 
                 for safe operation of vehicles thereon by reason of 
                 closely spaced intersections, sharp horizontal or 
                 vertical curvature, extensive on-street or back-out 
                 parking, etc. and it is hereby declared that the 
                 prima facie speed limit upon those streets or 
                 portions thereof described in Section 24-506 of 
                 this Code, Schedule VI, shall be therein stated, 
                 which speeds so declared shall be effective at the 
                 time specified therein when signs are erected 
                 giving notice thereof.
            
            
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance 
       shall take effect two (2) weeks from and after its passage as 
       provided by law.
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading August 12, 1997.	     s/__________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
       
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:___X___ DISAPPROVED:_______
       
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  August 14, 1997
       
       
       	    	      	   	     s/__________________________________
       :cjc 	      	   	     	             MAYOR