By Ratliff S.B. No. 1686 74R11434 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to establishing a speed limit on a street or highway in a 1-3 municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 169, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-6 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-7 by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-8 (f) In addition to the other authority granted to the 1-9 governing body of an incorporated city, town, or village to 1-10 establish a speed limit, the governing body may, by ordinance 1-11 adopted after a public hearing without an engineering or traffic 1-12 investigation, establish for a location a prima facie speed limit 1-13 not more than 10 miles per hour less than the prima facie speed 1-14 limit established for that location by this article or by the 1-15 department or governing body under the other provisions of this 1-16 article. This subsection applies only to a street or highway or 1-17 part of a street or highway within the territory of the city, town, 1-18 or village, including all or part of a highway in the state highway 1-19 system, except that this subsection does not apply to a street or 1-20 highway included in the Texas Highway Trunk System, as determined 1-21 according to rules of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.