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.
City Police Officers are 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.
[CC 2010 § 14.135; Ord. No. 863, 6-27-2016; Ord. No.
900, 10-22-2018]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a motor vehicle
in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour on any street or alley in
the City except as otherwise provided in this Section and posted.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a motor vehicle
on a street specified in this Section in excess of the maximum speed
limit set forth for such street in this Section.
B. No person shall drive or operate a motor vehicle at a rate of speed
so slow so as to impede, block or endanger the normal, usual and reasonable
movement of other traffic in the street, alley or highway except:
1.
When due to a condition of the motor vehicle which was not reasonably
foreseeable when entering upon the street, alley or highway and while
removing such motor vehicle off the street, alley or highway in the
shortest reasonable time and distance; or
2.
When reasonably necessary under the conditions existing at the
time and place.
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 Schedule I at
a rate of speed in excess of that speed limit set for such portions
of the roadways by said Schedule.
[CC 2010 § 14.140]
The driver of every motor vehicle shall drive at an appropriately
reduced speed when approaching and crossing an intersection or railroad
crossing, when approaching and going around a curve or right angle
turn, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow
or winding roadway and when special hazards exist with respect to
pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather of highway or
street conditions.