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 (20) 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.
[R.O. 2006 §320.060]
A.
Except
as elsewhere provided, on any divided highway designated as part of
the Federal Interstate System, no vehicle shall be operated at a speed
of less than forty (40) miles per hour, except when a slower speed
is required for safe operation of the vehicle because of weather or
other special conditions.
B.
Agricultural
implements, self-propelled hay-hauling equipment, implements of husbandry
and vehicles transporting such vehicles or equipment may be operated
occasionally on interstate highways for short distances at a speed
of less than forty (40) miles per hour if such vehicle or equipment
is operated under a special permit issued by the Chief Engineer of
the State Department of Highways and transportation pursuant to Section
304.200, RSMo., and the regulations established pursuant thereto.
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.
