[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.280; amended Ord. 145, 6-6-1983; Ord. 453, 10-20-1997; Ord. 528, 7-16-2001; Ord. 629, 3-6-2006 Ord. 633, 6-5-2006]
No person shall drive a vehicle of the first division upon any
public street or alley in the City at a speed greater than is reasonable '1and
proper, having due regard to the traffic and the use of the way or
so as to endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person.
If the rate of speed of any motor vehicle of said first division,
operated upon any public street or alley where the same passes through
the business district, exceeds 20 miles per hour, or if the rate of
speed of any such motor vehicle operated on any public street or alley
where the same passes through the residence district exceeds 25 miles
per hour, or if the rate of speed of any such motor vehicle operated
on any public street or alley in a suburban district exceeds 35 miles
per hour, such rates of speed shall be prima facie evidence that the
person operating such motor vehicle is running at a rate of speed
greater than is reasonable and proper having regard to the traffic
and use of the way or so as to endanger the life or limb or injure
property of any person. Provided, however, that where the state has
erected signs fixing other or different speeds, such signs shall control
the speeds on the streets where such signs are erected.
(A) The following speed restrictions of 25 miles per hour, changing to
30 miles per hour shall apply on the following named streets:
1. Twenty-five miles per hour on Third Street between Union Street and
Elm Street; 30 miles per hour from Elm Street to Main Street.
2. Twenty-five miles per hour on Eighth Street between Union Street
and Elm Street; 30 miles per hour from Elm Street to Main Street.
3. Twenty-five miles per hour on Union Street from Eighth Street to
Seventeenth Street; 30 miles per hour from Seventeenth Street to the
U.S. 66 belt line.
4. Twenty-five miles per hour on Tremont Street from Union Street to
Sheridan Street; 30 miles per hour from Sheridan Street to Limit Street.
(B) The speed restriction shall be 25 miles per hour on the following
named streets or parts thereof:
Name of Street
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Location
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College Street
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Between Fifth Street and Eleventh Street
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Eighth Street
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Between Maple Street and State Street
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North Hamilton Street
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Entire length
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Oscar Street
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Entire length of the street throughout the City
|
(C) The speed restriction shall be 30 miles per hour on the following
named streets or parts thereof:
Name of Street
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Location
|
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Adams Street
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Between Eighth Street and Seventeenth Street
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Adams Street
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From Fifth Street to Seventeenth Street
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Delavan Street
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Between Pekin Street and Limit Street
|
Heitmann Drive
|
|
Madigan Drive
|
|
State Street
|
From Fifth Street to West Kickapoo Street
|
Sysco Drive
|
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Union Street
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Between Ninth Street and Seventeenth Street
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Wyatt Avenue
|
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(D) The speed restriction shall be 35 miles per hour on the following
named streets or parts thereof:
Name of Street
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Location
|
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Connolley Road
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Entire length from Route 10 to Fifth Street Road
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Fifth Street
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From Lincoln Parkway to the western limits of the City
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Limit Street
|
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Limit Street
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Between Broadway and Route 10
|
[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.290]
The speed of all vehicles of the second division shall always be reasonable and safe, and, if equipped with pneumatic tires, be governed as near as may be by the general requirements of Section
9-3-1 of this chapter, but if equipped with two or more solid tires, such speed shall not exceed 10 miles per hour.
[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.300]
Vehicles of the second division when operated for the transportation
of passengers for hire pursuant to a certificate of convenience and
necessity issued by the Illinois commerce commission, shall be subject
to such regulations as to speed as may be made by the said commission;
provided, that no such vehicle shall operate at a greater rate of
speed than motor vehicles are permitted to operate under similar conditions
under the provisions of this chapter; provided, further, that such
operation shall always be reasonable and safe, having regard to the
traffic and use of the way; and provided, further, that no such motor
vehicle shall, if equipped with solid rubber tires, operate on any
public street or alley in the City at a speed greater than 10 miles
per hour; and provided that such vehicle shall, at all times, operate
only over and upon such streets and alleys as are or may be designated
in such certificate of convenience and necessity or, if no streets
or alleys are designated in such certificate, then such vehicles shall
operate only over and upon such streets as are or may be designated
by the proper authorities of the state as part of the system of state
highways; provided, however, that when actually engaged in the local
delivery of passengers or merchandise, such vehicles may proceed to
and return from the point of delivery by the most direct and shortest
available route between such state highway street and such point of
delivery.
[1960 Code, Secs. 9.04.310, 9.04.330]
(A) The fact that the speed of a vehicle is lower than the foregoing
prima facie limits shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease
speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, when approaching
and going around a curve, when approaching a hillcrest, when traveling
upon any narrow or winding street or alley and when a special hazard
exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of
weather or highway conditions, and speed shall be decreased as may
be necessary to avoid colliding with any person or vehicle on or entering
the street or alley in compliance with legal requirements and the
duty of all persons to use due care.
(B) 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.
Police officers are hereby authorized to enforce this provision
by direction to drivers, and in the event of apparent wilful disobedience
to this provision and refusal to comply with direction of an officer
in accordance herewith, the continued slow operation by a driver shall
be a violation of this chapter.
[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.340]
The prima facie speed limitations set forth in this chapter
shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles when responding to
emergency calls and the drivers thereof sound audible signal by bell,
siren or exhaust whistle. This provision shall not relieve the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due
regard for the safety of all persons using the street, nor shall it
protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of a
reckless disregard of the safety of others.
[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.320]
In every charge of violation of Sections
9-3-1,
9-3-2 and
9-3-3 of this chapter, the complaint and the summons of notice to appear shall specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven and also the prima facie speed applicable within the district or at the location where such violation is alleged to have occurred.