[CC 1990 Sch. III; CC §76.080; Ord.
No. 76.081 §§1 — 2, 7-13-1987; Ord. No. 92.043, 10-12-1992; Ord. No. 96.041 §1, 7-8-1996; Ord. No. 97.029 §1, 6-9-1997; Ord.
No. 99.005 §2, 2-8-1999; Ord. No. 2005.19 §1, 8-16-2005; Ord. No. 2006.39 §1, 12-11-2006]
A. No person
shall operate or drive a motor vehicle (except emergency vehicles
on emergency runs) or any other conveyance on any street, boulevard,
thoroughfare or public way, in this City, at any time, at a rate of
speed in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour except as a greater
or lesser speed is hereinafter provided for certain streets, boulevards,
thoroughfares, areas or public ways in the City and except as a greater
or lesser speed is hereinafter provided for certain classes and types
of motor vehicles and other conveyances.
B. Every person
operating a motor vehicle on the streets, alleys or highways of this
City shall operate or drive the same in a careful and prudent manner
and shall exercise the highest degree of care and at a rate of speed
not in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour. Every driver of a vehicle
other than a motor vehicle shall drive the same in a careful and prudent
manner and at a rate of speed so as not to endanger the property of
another or the life or limb of any person or faster than a moderate
gait.
C. 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.
D. No person
shall operate or drive a motor vehicle or other conveyance in violation
of the following specific speed limits:
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Location
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Speed
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West Walnut Street between Parkside and Monroe
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10 m.p.h.
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On all alleyways within the corporate limits of the City of
Desloge
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10 m.p.h.
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All parks within the corporate limits of the City of Desloge
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10 m.p.h.
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State Highway P
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30 m.p.h.
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State Highway 8
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30 m.p.h.
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State Street
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30 m.p.h.
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Hawthorne Street north of Highway 8
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30 m.p.h.
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