ORDINANCE  No.   1-2007

AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING REDUCED SPEED LIMITS ON 
WHITE ROCK ROAD, CLAY COUNTY, INDIANA

	WHEREAS I.C. 8-17-1-40 authorizes the county legislative body to adopt ordinances regulating traffic on any highway in the county highway system subject to I.C. 9-21.
	WHEREAS I.C. 9-21-1-3(a)(11) provides that a local authority, with respect to private roads and highways under the authority’s jurisdiction, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power, may alter the prima facie speed limits authorized under I.C. 9-21-5.
	WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of I.C. 9-21-5-6 on the basis of a traffic investigation and informal engineering study, the Board of Commissioners has determined that the reasonable and safe maximum limit on the White Rock Road between State Road 59 and County Road 200 West in Clay County, Indiana  should be reduced from the prima facie speed limit authorized under I.C. 9-21-5.
	NOW THEREFORE; be it ordained, that the Clay County Board of Commissioners hereby sets the maximum speed limit for the White Rock Road between State Road 59 and County Road 200 West in Clay County, Indiana at 35 miles per hour.  The Clay County Highway Superintendent shall be authorized to post and maintain speed limit signs in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
	This Ordinance shall be effective when the speed limit signs giving notice of the speed limit as established by this Ordinance are posted on the White Rock Road between State Road 59 and County Road 200 West in Clay County, Indiana.  
	Violation of this Ordinance shall be a Class C infraction.

	This Ordinance supercedes any prior speed limit ordinance on the above described roadway.
	DATED this 5th day of February, 2007.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF CLAY COUNTY, INDIANA:

______Charles Brown /s/_______
Charles Brown, Commissioner

______________________________
David Parr, Commissioner

_______Paul Sinders /s/___________
Paul Sinders, Commissioner

ATTEST:

______Mary Jo Alumbaugh /s/		_
Mary Jo Alumbaugh
Auditor, Clay County, Indiana