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State Law Reference — As to speed regulations generally, posted speed limits, etc., see RSMo., § 304.010. As to authority to set speed limits, see RSMo., § 304.120 (1). As to applicability of state speed limits, see RSMo., § 300.205.
Cross Reference — As to use of speed meters, see § 18-6.
[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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Cross Reference — As to general penalty, see § 1-7. As to rules for school zone, see § 18-17. As to speeding in park, see § 21-7. As to speeding in cemetery, see § 6-10. As to speeding in parking lot, see § 18-8.1.
[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.
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State Law Reference — See RSMo., § 304.011.