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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER #33 CITED AS "THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE"
OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF AMES , IOG,7A, REPEALING SECTION
33-T07 ESTABLISHING A NEW SECTION DESIGNATED 33. 7007ESTABLISHING
SPEED LIMITS ON GRAND AVENUE CONSISTENT WITH SPEED LIMITS SET BY
THE IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COM1,1ISSION; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFEC-
TIVE DATE.
IT IS ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES,
IOWA:
Section 1 . Section 33•-7007 of the Municipal Code of the City
of Ames , Iowa, as hitherto existing is hereby repealed.
Section 2 . A new section to be numbered 33.7007 is hereby
added to the Municipal Code of the City of %-.mes , Iowa, as follows:
Sec. 33-7007. Grand Avenue. A speed in excess of thirty (30)
miles per hour on Grand Avenue from Lincoln Way to Seventh Street is
unlawful; a speed in excess of thirty-five (35) miles per hour on
Grand Avenue from Seventh Street to a point three hundred seventy-
seven (377) feet north of Twenty-fourth Street is unlawful; a speed
in excess of forty-five (45) miles per hour on Grand Avenue from a
point three hundred seventy-seven (377) feet north of Twenty-fourth
Street to a point five hundred (500) feet north of Twenty-eighth
Street is unlawful; a speed of fifty-five (55) miles per hour on
Grand Avenue from a point five hundred (500) feet north of Twenty-
eighth Street to a point three hundred seventy-eight (378) feet
north of Top-O-Hollow Road is unlawful; and a speed in excess of
seventy (70) miles per hour from sunrise to sunset and sixty (60)
miles per hour from sunset to sunrise on Grand Avenue from a point
three hundred seventy-eight (378) feet north of Top-0-Hollow Road
to the North Corporation Limits is unlawful. (Iowa State Highway
Commission Resolution No. 69-524 , 5-1-69 . )
Section 3 . All ordinances and parts of ordinances in con-
flict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 4 . This ordinance is in full force and effect from
and after its passage and publication as provided by law.
Passed this 7th day of October 1969 .
of
Lou se 1,7hitcome, City Clerk Stuart N. Smith, Mayor
9/16/69 Moved by Newell-LeBaron the ordinance pass on 1st reading.
Aye : Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, Newell, LeBaron
Nay: None Absent: Fisher
Ordinance declarc:d passed on lst reading.
9/23/69 Moved by Newell-Judge the ordinance pass on 2nd reading
Aye : Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, Newell, LeBaron
Nay: None Absent: Fisher
Ordinance declared passed on 2nd reading.
10/7/69 Moved by Judge-LeBaron the ordinance pass on final reading.
Aye : Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, LeBaron, Fisher
Nav: None Absnt: Newell
Ordinance declared adopted.