06-80 ORDINANCE NO. 6-80
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FLORIDA, AS~NDING CHAPTER 25 "TRAFFIC AND MOTOR
VEHICLES" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FLORIDA, BY A~NDING AND RELETTERING EXISTING SUB-
SECTION 25-1(C) TO BECOME SUBSECTION 25-1(d) AND ENACTING
NEW SUBSECTION 25-1(c) TO AUTHORIZE THE ENGINEERING DE-
PARTMENT TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CON-
TROL DEVICES, SIGNS AND SIGNALS, RATIFYING EXISTING
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, SIGNS ~D SIGNALS, SPECIFYING
INSTALLATION REQUIRE~.~NTS; PROVIDING A PENALTY; PROVIDING
A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING ~N EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Chapter 25 "Traffic and Motor Vehicles" of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach, Florida, is hereby amended
by relettering Subsection 25-1(c) to Subsection 25-1(d) and amending Sec-
tion 25-1(d) to read as follows:
~e~ (d) Any person, firm or corporation who violates
subsection (a) e~ (b) or (c) shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by the same penalty as is provided
by the laws of the state, but in no case shall such
penalty exceed a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00),
or an imprisonment for more than ninety (90) days, or
both such fine and imprisonment ~-%~e-~se~e~-e~-%he
Section 2. That Chapter 25 "Traffic and Motor Vehicles" of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach, Florida, is hereby amended
by enacting a new Subsection 25-1(c) to read as follows:
(c) This subsection shall apply to all public: streets, alleys,
highways, avenues, lanes, boulevards, roads and other like rights
of way (hereinafter referred to collectively as streets) under
the City's jurisdiction pursuant to Florida Statute 316 as now
existing and as may hereafter be amended; and all parking lots,
driveways, or other areas open for use of the public for vehi-
cular, pedestrian, or bicycle traffic (hereinafter referred to
collectively as public ways).
(1) The engineering department is hereby authorized to in-
stall, remove, or modify traffic control devices, signs or
signals to regulate vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle
traffic on the streets and public ways in the City which are
determined by traffic engineering study to be necessary or
desirable for safe traffic control.
(2) All traffic control devices, signs, and signals in
existence in the City as of the effective date of this
ordinance are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(3) All traffic control installations hereafter made by the
City shall comply with the manual and specifications of the
State Department of Transportation. All traffic control
devices, signs, signals erected in accordance with this sub-
section 25-1(c) shall be official traffic control devices,
the violation of which shall result in the penalties pro-
vided in Section 1-6 of the Code.
Section 3. That should any section or provision of this ordinance
or any portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence, or word be declared by a
Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remainder hereof as a whole or part thereof
other than the part declared to be invalid.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall become effective ten days
after passage on second and final reading.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session on second and final reading
on this the 25~h day of February , 1980.
MAYOR
LEON M. WEEKES
ATTEST:
City Clerk
First Reading February 11, 1980
Second Reading February 25, 1980
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