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MUNICIPALITY OF COUNTY OF ESSEX BY -LAW NUMBER 1983 _ AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS WHEREAS subsection 6a of section 59 of the Highway Traffic Act (R.S.0. 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 Municipality of County of Essex be either decreased or increased or both; NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipal- ity of the 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 regulations 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 by -law. 3. This by -law shall not become effective until approved by the Department of Transportation & Communications. ENACTED AND PASSED this 31st day of August 1971. Approved this 8 day of NOV 1971 pursuant to the provisions of The Highway Traffic Act Charles A9,1'-Naughton Minister of Trans and com unications Per (/ Registrar of Motor ehicles Warden - r- Clerk's Certificate I, C.A. Keeley, Clerk of the Corporation of the County o.f_ Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true "and correct copyof Bylaw Number 1983 passed by the Coun3 l of the said Corporation on the 31st day of August, 1971 in open Session. c, Corporati of the County of Essex