No person
shall operate or drive a motor vehicle (except emergency vehicles
on emergency runs) or any other conveyance on any street, boulevard,
thoroughfare, or public way in this City, at any time, at a rate of
speed in excess of thirty (30) miles per hour except as a greater
or lesser speed is hereinafter provided for certain streets, boulevards,
thoroughfares, areas or public ways in the City, except as a greater
or lesser speed is hereinafter provided for certain classes and types
of motor vehicles and other conveyances.
1. Every
person operating a motor vehicle or other conveyance on the streets
of the City shall operate or drive the same in a careful and prudent
manner, and in the exercise of the highest degree of care, and at
a rate of speed so as not to endanger the property of another or the
life or limb of any person, taking into consideration the time of
day, the amount of vehicular and pedestrian traffic condition of the
street or highway, the atmospheric conditions and the location with
reference to intersecting streets or highways, curves, residences
or schools. Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed as to authorize
any person to operate a motor vehicle in excess of specific speed
limits established by law or ordinance.
2. It shall
be unlawful for any person unnecessarily to drive at such a slow speed
or in such position on the roadway as to impede or block the normal
and reasonable movement of traffic.