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MUNICIPALITY OF COUNTY OF ESSEX BY -LAW NUMBER 1954 AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS WHEREAS subsection 6 (a) of section 59 of The Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O. 1960, Chapter 172) authorizes the council of a township or county by by -law to prescribe a lower or higher rate of speed for motor vehicles on a highway or portion of highway under its jurisdiction that is not within a built -up area or suburban district than is prescribed in clause (a) of subsection 1 of section 59, but such rate of speed shall not be less than 35 miles per hour or more than 60 miles per hour; AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that the speed limit for motor vehicles on certain highways in the Municipalities of Townships of Tilbury West, Rochester and Maidstone be either decreased or increased or both; NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of County of Essex enacts as follows: 1. When any highway or portion of highway set out in Schedule A, appended hereto is marked in compliance with the re- gulations under The Highway Traffic Act the maximum rate of speed thereon shall be the rate of speed prescribed in the schedule. 2. The penalties provided in subsection 12 of section 59 of The Highway Traffic Act shall apply to offences against this bylaw. 3. This bylaw shall not become effective until approved by the Department of Transport. ENACTED AND PASSED this day of March, 1971. Approved this 26th day of May, 1971 pursuant to the provisions of The Highway Traffic Act. Warden Charles MacNaughton MINISTER OF TRANSPORT Per: _ e C1erkTS Certificate Registrar of otor Vehicles. I, C.A. Keeley, Clerk of the Corporation of the County of Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is atrue and correct copy of Bylaw # 1954 read in open Council of the" County of the necessary times and finally passed at its 1971 Session. � e ' C rporation o t County of Essex ;�