[Ord. No. 1069 § 1, 12-8-1975; Ord. No. 1238 § 1, 7-18-1985; Ord.
No. 1522 § 1, 1-15-1990; Ord. No. 1553 § 1, 6-18-1990; Ord.
No. 1868 § 2, 9-5-1995; Ord. No. 1950 §§ 1
— 4, 2-18-1997; Ord. No. 1989 § 1, 1-19-1998; Ord.
No. 2112 §§ 1 — 2, 5-15-2000; Ord. No. 2129 § 1, 12-18-2000; Ord. No. 2420 §§ 1
— 3, 8-7-2006; Ord. No. 2550 §§ 2
— 4, 12-15-2008; Ord. No. 2612 § 1, 7-19-2010; Ord.
No. 2691 § 1, 7-16-2012]
Except as otherwise provided in the City Code, maximum speed
limits for operating vehicles on City streets are set forth in this
Section. No person driving or operating any vehicle on a City street
in a specified area or district set forth in this Section or on a
City street specified in this Section shall drive or operate such
vehicle on a street in such area or district or on such specified
street in excess of the maximum speed limit set forth for such street
in this Section.
For purposes of this Section, "business district" means the
following specified streets and all streets within and enclosed by
said streets: Railroad Street from Jefferson Street to Hickman Street;
Hickman Street from Railroad Street to Sneed Street; Sneed Street
from Hickman Street to Allen Street; Allen Street from Sneed Street
to Barnes Street; Barnes Street from Allen Street to Rollins Street;
Rollins Street from Barnes Street to Sneed Street; Sneed Street from
Rollins Street to Collier Street; Collier Street from Sneed Street
to Singleton Street; and Singleton Street from Collier Street to Jefferson
Street.
For purposes of this Section, "residential area street" means any City street not otherwise specified in Subsection (B) and Subsection (C) of this Section and not otherwise covered in some other Section of the Centralia City Code. Speeding through a school zone is provided for in Section
18-17; speeding in a City park is provided for in Section
21-7; speeding in a parking lot is provided for in Section
18-8.1; and speeding in the City cemetery is provided for in Section
6-10.
A. For every residential area street, the speed limit shall be twenty-five
(25) miles per hour, unless otherwise provided in this Section and
posted.
B. For every street in the business district, unless otherwise provided
in this Section and posted, the speed limit shall be twenty (20) miles
per hour and shall be posted.
C. The speed limit on the following streets shall be as follows and
shall be posted:
1. On Missouri Highway 22 from two thousand five hundred seventy (2,570)
feet west of Missouri Highway 124 to five hundred fifty (550) feet
west of Missouri Highway 124, the speed limit shall be sixty (60)
miles per hour; from five hundred fifty (550) feet west of Missouri
Highway 124 to Barr Street, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles
per hour; from Barr Street to Jefferson Street, the speed limit shall
be thirty (30) miles per hour; from Jefferson Street to Remington
Street, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles per hour; and from
Remington Street to one thousand seven hundred (1,700) feet east of
Country Club Drive, the speed limit shall be fifty (50) miles per
hour.
2. On Missouri Highway 124 from one thousand one hundred (1,100) feet
south of Highway CC to Missouri Highway 22, the speed limit shall
be fifty (50) miles per hour.
3. On Missouri Highway 151 from Fountain Street to Missouri Highway
22, the speed limit shall be forty-five (45) miles per hour.
4. On Jefferson Street from two hundred thirty-five (235) feet south
of Gano Chance Drive to six hundred fifty (650) feet north of Gano
Chance Drive, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles per hour;
from six hundred fifty (650) feet north of Gano Chance Drive to Barnes
Street, the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour;
from Barnes Street to Poage Street, the speed limit shall be twenty
(20) miles per hour; from Poage Street to Missouri Highway 22, the
speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour; and from Missouri
Highway 22 to one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet north of Missouri
Highway 22, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
5. On Lakeview Street from Highway 124 to Adams Street, the speed limit
shall be thirty (30) miles per hour; from Adams Street to Central
Street, the speed limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour, except
for any part of the street in a school zone; and from Jefferson Street
to one hundred twenty-seven (127) feet east of Ivy Street, the speed
limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
6. On Gano Chance Drive from Columbia Street to Jefferson Street, the
speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour and from Jefferson
Street to two thousand seven hundred (2,700) feet east of Jefferson
Street, the speed limit shall be thirty-five (35) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020; Ord.
No. 3089, 4-19-2021]
7. On Highway CC from five hundred (500) feet west of Missouri Highway
124 to Missouri Highway 124, the speed limit shall be thirty-five
(35) miles per hour.
8. On West Singleton Street from Missouri Highway 124 to the COLT Railroad
railroad tracks, the speed limit shall be thirty (30) miles per hour;
and from the COLT Railroad railroad tracks to Hickman Street, the
speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020; Ord.
No. 3089, 4-19-2021]
9. On North Allen Street from Railroad Street to Switzler Street, the
speed limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour; and from Switzler
Street to Missouri Highway 22, the speed limit shall be twenty-five
(25) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
10. On Cox Street from Rollins Street to Jefferson Street, the speed
limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour.
11. On Booth Street from Jefferson Street to seven hundred (700) feet
east of Orchard Street, the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25)
miles per hour.
12. On Sims Street from Jefferson Street to Allen Street, the speed limits
shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour, except for any part of the
street in a school zone when in effect.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
13. On Switzler Street from Howard Burton Drive to West Southgate Street,
the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
14. On Walnut Street from Rodemyre. Street to South Street, the speed
limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour.
15. On Rodemyre Street from Walnut Street to Jefferson Street, the speed
limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour.
16. On Columbia Street from Sims Street to Country Land Drive, the speed
limit shall be twenty (20) miles per hour; and from Country Land Drive
to Gano Chance Drive, the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles
per hour.
[Ord. No. 3069, 8-17-2020]
17. On Remington Drive, the speed limit shall be fifteen (15) miles per
hour.
[Ord. No. 2748 § 1, 12-16-2013]
18. On Janey Enlow Lane, the speed limit shall be fifteen (15) miles
per hour.
[Ord. No. 2788 §§1 — 2, 11-17-2014]
[Ord. No. 739 § 12, 1-9-1961]
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as
to impede, congest or block the normal and reasonable movement of
traffic; except, when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation
or in compliance with the law. Police Officers are hereby authorized
to enforce this provision by directions to drivers and, in event of
apparent disobedience of this provision and refusal to comply with
the direction of an Officer in accordance therewith, the continued
slow operation by a driver shall be a misdemeanor.