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.
[CC 1988 §76.100]
No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle (except emergency
vehicles on emergency runs) or any other conveyance on any streets,
thoroughfare or public way in the City of Lake Saint Louis at any
time at a rate of speed in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per hour
except as a greater or lesser speed is otherwise posted.
[CC 1988 §76.100(2)]
It shall be unlawful for any person unnecessarily to drive at
such a slow speed or in such position on the roadway as to impede
or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic.
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.