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MUNICIPALITY OF COUNTY OF ESSEX BYLAW NUMBER 2073 AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS WHEREAS subsection 7 of section 82 of the Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O. 1970, Chapter 202) authorizes the'council of a township or county by bylaw 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 built -up area or suburban district than is pre- scribed in clause (a) of subsection 1 of section 82, 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 the County of Essex be either decreased or increased or both. 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 16 of section 82 of The Highway Traffic Act shall apply to offences against this bylaw. 3• This bylaw shall not become effective until approved by the Ministry of Transportation & Communications. Enacted and Passed this 11th day of July 1973. Approved this 23 day of AUG 1973 pursuant to the provisions of The Highway Traffic Act. GORDON CARTON MINICTLR ` T ea.NSr ORIA110N AND C0Mh "JNICA1101` Per: Registrar of o e is e + s I ! en Warden C1 k Clerk's Certificate I, C.A. Keeley, Clerk of the Corporation of the County of Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Bylaw #2073 passed by the Council of the said Corpora-tion on the 11th day of July in open Session. A., Cle The Corporation of the County of Essex