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 Manager 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.
[R.O. 2008 §315.040; Ord. No. 4893 §1, 7-18-1990; Ord. No. 5241 §1, 10-17-1994; Ord. No. 5293 §1, 4-10-1995; Ord. No. 5460 §1, 9-23-1996; Ord. No. 6120 §1, 9-28-1998; Ord. No. 6163 §1, 2-8-1999; Ord. No. 6194 §1, 5-10-1999; Ord. No. 6275 §1, 4-24-2000; Ord. No. 6293 §1, 5-22-2000; Ord. No. 6526 §1 — 2, 3-3-2003; Ord. No. 7799 §1, 10-12-2015]
A.
No vehicle shall be operated at a rate of speed in excess of the
posted speed signs.
B.
The speed regulations upon those highways and streets or parts of
highways and streets where there are no posted speed limit signs,
shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour. The speed limitations upon
these streets with a right-of-way of less than twenty (20) feet in
width, commonly known as "alleys," shall be ten (10) miles per hour.
C.
The following shall be specifically designated speed limits contrary to Subsection (B):
1.
First Street.
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From east City limits to 102 River
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55 miles per hour
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From 102 River to east 1700 block
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45 miles per hour
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From east 1700 block to Depot Street
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35 miles per hour
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From Depot Street to Davis Street
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30 miles per hour
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From center line of Country Club Road eastward to one hundred
fifty (150) feet west of Faustiana Place
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45 miles per hour
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From one hundred fifty (150) feet west of Faustiana Place eastward
to center line of Ray Avenue
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35 miles per hour
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From the center line of Ray Avenue eastward to center line of
Mulberry Street
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30 miles per hour
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2.
Third Street.
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From Depot Street to Davis Street
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35 miles per hour
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From Davis Street to Vine Street
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25 miles per hour
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3.
Seventh Street.
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From Depot Street to Davis Street
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30 miles per hour
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4.
Sixteenth Street.
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From west City limits to Main Street
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35 miles per hour
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5.
Buchanan Street.
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From Lincoln Street to Jenkins Street
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30 miles per hour
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6.
College Avenue.
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From Country Club Road to Grand Street
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30 miles per hour
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7.
Country Club Road.
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From First Street to north City limits
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30 miles per hour
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8.
Depot Street.
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From north City limits to Third Street
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35 miles per hour
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From Third Street to Halsey Street
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30 miles per hour
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9.
Edwards Street.
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From Saunders Street to Vine Street
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30 miles per hour
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10.
Main Street.
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From United States 71 at the south end of Main Street to Route
V
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40 miles per hour
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From Route V to South Avenue
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35 miles per hour
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From South Avenue to Jenkins Street
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30 miles per hour
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From north City limits to the point the extension of the southern
boundary of the tract of real estate recorded and described in Book
359, Page 48, in the Recorder's Office of Nodaway County, Missouri,
would intersect Main Street
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55 miles per hour
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From the point the extension of the southern boundary of the
tract of real estate recorded and described in Book 359, Page 48,
in the Recorder's Office of Nodaway County, Missouri, would intersect
Main Street to Sixteenth Street
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45 miles per hour
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From Sixteenth Street to Sixth Street
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35 miles per hour
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11.
Munn Avenue.
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From Route V to First Street
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30 miles per hour
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12.
Route V.
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West City limits to Main Street
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40 miles per hour
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West City limits east to Business Route 71
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40 miles per hour
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13.
South Avenue.
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From west City limits to Main Street
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35 miles per hour
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From Main Street east to Lieber Street
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25 miles per hour
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From Lieber Street east to United States Highway 71
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35 miles per hour
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14.
Business Route 71.
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From Route V south to United States Highway 71
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40 miles per hour
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15.
Second Street.
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East Second Street, 300 block, 400 block and 500 block
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20 miles per hour
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16.
United States 71 Bypass.
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From the south City limits to the north City limits
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55 miles per hour
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D.
The City Manager or his/her duly authorized representative is hereby
authorized to have erected speed limit signs in such places as said
City Manager or his/her duly authorized representative shall deem
necessary.
E.
Violations of this Section shall be an ordinance violation.
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.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon those portions of the roadways which are set forth and described in Section 320.030 at a rate of speed in excess of that speed limit set for such portions of the roadways by said Section.
