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CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX BY-LAW NUMBER 2183 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 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 82 but such rate of speed shall not be less than 35 miles per hour or more than 60 miles per hour; AND ~tEREAS it is deemed expedient that the speed limit for motor vehicles on certain highways in the Corporation of the County of Essex be either decreased or increased or both; NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation 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 16 of section 82 of The Highway Traffic Act shall apply to offences against this by-law. 3. By-law #2169 enacted April 23, 1975 is hereby repealed. ENACTED AND PASSED this 18th 1st reading-June 18Z75 2nd reading-June 18/75 3rd reading-June 18/75 day of June , 19 WARD EN 75. CLERK'S CERTIFICATE I, Peter A. Cramp, Clerk of the Corporation of the County of Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of By-law #2183 passed by the Council of the said Corporation-~n the l~th day of June , 1975 in open session. Pete~. Cramp, ~ /~ C~foration of the County-of~Essex