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BY-LAW NUMBER 2211 <br />AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS <br /> <br /> WHEREAS subsection 7 of section 82 of the Highway Traffic <br />Act (R.S.O. 1970, Chapter 202) authorizes the council of a township <br />or county by by-law to prescribe a lower or higher rate of speed <br />for motor vehicles on a highway or portion of highway under its <br />jurisdiction that is not within a built-up area or suburban district <br />than is prescribed in clause (a) of subsection 1 of section 82, but <br />such rate of speed shall not be less than 35 miles per hour or more <br />than 60 miles per hour; <br /> <br /> AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that the speed limit for <br />motor vehicles on certain highways in the Corporation of the County <br />of Essex be either decreased or increased or both; <br /> <br /> NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the <br />Municipality of the County of Essex enacts as follows: <br /> <br />When any highway or portion of highway set out in Schedule <br />A appended hereto is marked in compliance with the <br />regulations under the Highway Traffic Act the maximum rate <br />of speed thereon shall be the rate of speed prescribed in <br />the schedule. <br /> <br />The penalties provided in subsection 16 of section 82 of <br />the Highway Traffic Act shall apply to offences against <br />this by-law. <br /> <br />By-law #1870 enacted January 14, 1970 is hereby repealed. <br /> <br />ENACTED AND PASSED this llth day of Fehruar~v , 1976. <br /> <br />1st reading -Feb. 11/76 <br />2nd reading -Feb. 11/76 <br />3rd reading -Feb. 11/76 <br /> <br />CLERK'S CERTIFICATE <br /> <br /> I, Peter A. Cramp, Clerk of the Corporation of the County <br />of Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and <br />correct copy of By-Law Number 2211 passed by the Couscil of the <br />said Corporation on the llth day of February ,1976,-in open <br />Session. <br /> <br /> Co~porat~on of t~ County Of <br /> E~sex '~ ~-~ ' <br /> <br /> <br />