Ord 2262 8/15/1966 ORDINANCE NO. �02 602--
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 7-101 OF THE 1941
CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES, INCREASING THE SPEED
LIMITS FOR RAILROAD TRAINS AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS
WITHIN THE CITY.
SECTION 1. Section 7-101 of the 1941 codification of
ordinances is hereby amended so that it shall hereafter read
as follows:
"Section 7-101: That it shall hereafter be unlawful to
operate or run or cause to be operated or run, within the cor-
porate limits of the City of Wichita Falls, any railway engine,
car or train of cars at a greater rate of speed than 15 miles
per hour, except that the following speed limits shall apply
at the locations shown:
30 miles per hour on the main line track for F.W. & D.C.
Railway and M.K. & T. Railway Company from the East City Limits
to the 7th Street crossing;
8 miles per hour across the 7th Street crossing;
30 miles per hour on the main line track for F.W. & D.C.
Railway Company from the 7th Street crossing to a point 2000
feet West of Vermont Avenue;
35 miles per hour from a point 2000 feet West of Ver-
mont Avenue to the West City Limits. "
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective when
standard railroad warning signal installations have been com-
pleted at the Jacqueline crossing, the Vermont crossing and
the Rosewood crossing.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 15th day of August, 1966. /
M A Y O R AgdWAV
A T T E S T:
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City Clerk