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Ordinance providing for the establishment of an altered speed zone for 50 M.P.H. (currently 55 M.P.H.) on Lewis Avenue, County Highway 27, located in Benton Township in conformity with Chapter 625 - Section 5/11-604 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
Staff Summary
• County Road Speed Zone Ordinance: Lewis Avenue in Benton Township
• Ordinance are required to establish speed zones
• The necessary speed studies have been undertaken
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AN ORDINANCE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF AN ALTERED SPEED ZONE - COUNTY HIGHWAYS
IT IS HEREBY DECLARED by the County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the basic statutory vehicular speed limits established by Chapter 625 - Section 5/11-604 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes is greater, or less, than is reasonable or safe with respect to the conditions found to exist on the County highway listed in the following Schedule for which the County has maintenance responsibility and which is not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois.
BE IT FURTHER DECLARED that an engineering and traffic investigation has been made upon the County highways listed in the Schedule in accordance with a County Policy for establishing altered speed zones on Township and County highways prepared by the County Engineer and approved by the Illinois Department of Transportation in accordance with Chapter 625 - Section 5/11-604 and Section 5/11-301 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes; and,
BE IT FURTHER DECLARED that, by virtue of Section 5/11-604 of the above Chapter, this Board determines and declares that reasonable and safe absolute maximum speed limits upon those County highways described in the Schedule shall be as stated herein.
BE IT FURTHER DECLARED that appropriate signs giving notice of the maximum speed limits for the zone or zones of said County highway described in the Schedule shall be erected.
BE IT FURTHER DECLARED, that this ordinance shall take effect immediately after the erection of said signs giving notice of the maximum speed limits.
SCHEDULE
Name of County Road: Lewis Avenue
Exact Limits of Zone From: A point 800 feet north of Ninth Street
To: Russell Road
A distance of 0.84 Mile
Maximum Speed Limits: 50 M.P.H.
Comments: County Road Existing Speed Limit is 55 M.P.H.
I, _____________________________, County Clerk in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, and keeper of the records and files thereof, as provided by statute, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true, perfect and complete copy of an ordinance adopted by the County Board of Lake County, at its _____________________________ meeting held at ____________________________ on ____________________, 20_____.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at my office in _______________said County, this________________________ day of _______________________, A.D. 20 _____.
County Clerk