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MUNICIPALITY OF COUNTY OF ESSEX BY-LAW NUMBER 1870 AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMITS WHEREAS subsection 6 (a) of section 59 of The Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O. 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 Township of Sandwich West be either decreased or increased or both; NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of County of Essex enacts as follows: 1. When any highway or portion of highway set out in Schedule A and B. 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 Transport. ENACTED AND PASSED this 14th day of January 1970. Approved this 30th day of January, 1970 pursuant to the provisions of The Highway Traffic Act, with the exception of Schedule A hereof. Irwin liaskett MINISTER OF TRANSPORT / teaN n Per: Deputy Minister. CLERKTS 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 By -Law #1870 read in open Council of the County of Essex the necessary times and finally passed at its January, 1970 session. Essex