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BY -LAW NUMBER 2029 <br />AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS <br />WHEREAS subsection 6a of section 59 of the Highway Traffic Act <br />(R, R, 0, 1960 Chapter 173) authoritea the council of a township or county <br />by by -law to prescribe a lower or higher rate of speed for motor vehicles on <br />a highway or portion of highway under its jurisdiction that is not within a <br />built -up area or suburban district than is prescribed in clause (a) of <br />subsection 1 of section 59, but such rate of speed shall not be less than <br />35 miles per hour or more than 60 miles per "hour; <br />AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that the speed limit for motor <br />vehicles on certain highways in the Municipality of County of Essex be either <br />decreased or increased or both; <br />NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality <br />of the County of Essex enacts as follows: <br />1. When any highway or portion of highway set out in Schedule "B" <br />appended hereto as amended to item 1 is marked in compliance <br />with the regulations under the Highway Traffic Act the maximum <br />rate of speed thereon shall be the rate of speed prescribed in <br />the schedules. <br />2. The penalties provided in subsection 12 of section 59 of the <br />Highway Traffic Act shall apply to offences agains this by -law. <br />3. This by -law shall not become effective until approved by the <br />Ministry of Transportation & Communications. <br />4. County of Essex By -law #2007, dated March 1, 1972 is hereby <br />amended by Schedule "B" of this by -law by changing the 11 2500 feet" <br />to "3500 Feet" in item 1. <br />ENACTED AND PASSED this //� day of Zff ,1972. <br />s <br />CLERKIS CERTIFICATE <br />I, C. A. Keeley, Clerk of the Corporation of the County of <br />Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of <br />By -law Number 2029 ed the Council of the said Corporation �n the <br />day of , 1972. <br />Corporation <br />of Essex___- <br />