03-1046 City Code School Zone Ordinance
CITY OF MERIDIAN
ORDINANCE NO. tl.J -I ¡;; 4-C
BY THE COUNCIL:
BIRD, DE WEERD, MCCANDLESS, NARY
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 1, SECTION 6, MERIDIAN CITY
CODE; ADDING TO SAID SECTION 6 SUBSECTION A LANGUAGE DEFINING
"ALLEY" AND MAKING THE SPEED LIMIT IN ALLEYS FIFTEEN (15) MILES PER
HOUR; TO DELETE THE WORDS "AND ALLEYS" IN SUBSECTION B OF SECTION
6; AND ADDING TO SECTION 6 A NEW SUBSECTION C WHICH PROVIDES FOR
CONDITIONAL SPEED LIMITS IN A MARKED SCHOOL ZONE; PROVIDING FOR
AN INFRACTION PENALTY OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, EXCLUDING COURT
COSTS AND FEES, FOR SPEEDING IN A MARKED SCHOOL ZONE; PROVIDING
FOR CONFLICT, VALIDITY, SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN, IDAHO:
Section 1: That Title 7, Chapter I, Section 6, Meridian City Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
7-1-6 SPEED RESTRICTIONS:
No person shall drive a vehicle, except emergency vehicles, at a greater speed than designated as
follows:
A. Parks and Allevs: In any public park, or in anv ailev. fifteen (15) miles per hour. The
term "ailev" shall mean a minor public wav providing secondarv access at the back or side
of a property for vehicle or pedestrian traffic.
B. City Streets: On all other streets anè alleys in Meridian, twenty-five (25) miles per hour,
or as otherwise posted.
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C. School Zones: Twenty miles per hour when anv of the following exist:
L A school speed limit sign with flashing lights attached and the words "when
flashing" posted and the lights are activated: or
b. A school speed limit sign with "when children are present" included thereon. and
there is a child or children present. When children are present shall be defined to
mean whenever one or more child/children are present and clearlv visible on the
roadwav, shoulder area, sidewalk. or other area immediatelv adjacent to the
roadwav on which the school zone is located. This definition applies to children
present on the same side of the street as the school building, as well as across the
street from the school building or in any direction within the marked school zone.
and is not restricted to school davs or hours: or
J., A school zone speed limit sign with "7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m." included thereon.
:l Any person that violates this section shall be guiltv of an infraction and shall be
assessed a fixed penaltv of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) excluding court costs
and fees.
Section 2. All ordinances, resolutions, orders or parts thereof in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed, rescinded and annulled.
Section 3. VALIDITY: The Meridian City Council hereby declares that any section,
paragraph, sentence or word of this ordinance as adopted and amended herein be declared
for any reason to be invalid it is the intent of the Meridian City Council that it would have
passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any
portion as may be declared invalid.
Section 4. SAVINGS CLAUSE: This ordinance does not affect an action or
proceeding commenced or right accrued before this ordinance takes effect.
Section 5: DATE OF EFFECT: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
after its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
PASSED by the Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 7-t.:: day of tldv~
2003.
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APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, this 7~ day of tJc,,/o6t-u ,2003.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
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William G. Berg, City CI k
An Ordinance of the City of Meridian By: William G. Berg, Jr., City Clerk
First Reading: It!? - 7 - If) ..3
Adopted after first reading by suspension of the Rule as allowed pursuant to Idaho Code 50-902:
YES~ NO-
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
STATE OF IDAHO,)
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County of Ada
On this ~day of~, 2003, before me, the undersigned, a
Notary Public in and for said State, personally appeared ROBERT D. CORRIE and WILLIAM
G. BERG, JR., known to me to be the Mayor and City Clerk, respectively, of the CITY of
Meridian, Idaho, and who executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that the City
of Meridian executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal
the day and year first above written.
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