The State traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall
be applicable upon all streets within the City, except that the City
may by ordinance declare and determine upon the basis of engineering
and traffic investigation that certain speed regulations shall be
applicable upon specified streets or in certain areas, in which event
it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed
in excess of any speed so declared when signs are in place giving
notice thereof.
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to regulate the timing
of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly
and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise
applicable within the district or at intersections and shall erect
appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
Except where otherwise provided by signs erected pursuant to
duly passed and approved ordinances, no person shall operate a vehicle
on any street in the City in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per
hour.
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as
to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic,
except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance
with law. Peace Officers may enforce the provisions of this Section
by directions to drivers, and in the event of apparent willful disobedience
to this provision and refusal to comply with direction of an officer
in accordance herewith, the continued slow operation by a driver is
an ordinance violation.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon those portions
of the roadways which are set forth and described in Schedule I at
a rate of speed in excess of that speed limit set for such portions
of the roadways by said Schedule.
[Ord. No. 500 §§1 —
4, 10-8-1984]
A. There
shall be established on each street within the City of New Haven,
Missouri, which abuts and adjoins real property used as a school facility,
a school zone.
B. The school
zone shall be marked by yellow caution lines across the street and
by signs set on standards on each side of the street bearing the legend
"SCHOOL ZONE — 15 mph".
C. The school
zone shall be the points on the street fifty (50) feet prior to the
intersection of the property line of the school facility to the right-of-way
line of the street.
D. No person
shall operate a motor vehicle between the hours of 7:30 A.M. to 4:00
P.M. Monday through Friday during the period school is in session
at a greater speed than fifteen (15) mph.
[Ord. No. 769 §§1 —
3, 1-14-2002]
A. In the
event there is construction on or near the streets, alleys and public
thoroughfares of the City of New Haven and a portion of such street,
alley or public thoroughfare shall be needed for such construction
and the site used would be in close proximity to vehicular traffic.
The Street Commission shall, upon notification or upon his/her own
knowledge, determine if the above criteria are met, declare the immediate
construction site and an area of four hundred (400) feet on all sides
of the site as a "temporary construction zone".
B. Upon
an area declared as a "temporary construction zone", the Street Commission
shall cause to have temporary signs erected facing all vehicular approaches
to the "temporary construction zone" bearing the legend "TEMPORARY
CONSTRUCTION ZONE" "15 MILES PER HOUR". The signs shall be erected
at the edge of the construction zone and shall be at least thirty
(30) inches by thirty (30) inches in size.
C. It shall
be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle in the temporary construction
zone at a speed in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour.