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State law reference—Authority to establish or alter prima facie speed limits, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, sec. 542.202(12).
No person shall drive a vehicle on any street or highway within the corporate limits of the city at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing. Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speeds in order to operate or drive such vehicle in a reasonable and prudent manner on or entering a highway or street, a speed of thirty (30) miles per hour along the streets and highways within the corporate limits of the city shall be lawful, but any speed in excess of thirty (30) miles per hour shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful, except on streets or highways which have a speed limit set by the city or the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation which differs from the general speed limit of thirty (30) miles per hour. On any such street or highway, it is lawful to drive a vehicle at the speed which the said highway department or city has posted.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.301)
Whenever the city shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and/or traffic investigation that the thirty (30) miles per hour speed limit hereinbefore set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place, or upon any part of the street or highway, the city shall upon authorization by the City Council by appropriate ordinance establish such speed limit as shall be effective at all times when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or other place or part of the highway or street.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.302)
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, or in compliance with law, or at the direction of a police officer. Police officers are hereby authorized to enforce this provision by directions to drivers and, in the event of apparent willful disobedience to this provision and refusal to comply with the direction of an officer in accordance herewith, the continued slow operation by a driver shall be a misdemeanor.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.303)
(a) 
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the prima facie maximum speed limit on those portions of roads and highways in the city limits, is as hereinafter stated and shall be effective at all times, and signs will be erected giving notice of the prima facie maximum speed limit so declared.
(b) 
No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle or other vehicle upon the following described streets at a greater speed than the speed designated for the street or portion of that street as set forth herein, and any speed in excess of the limits set forth in this article shall be prima facie evidence that such speed is neither reasonable nor prudent and is unlawful:
(1) 
US 183 (Bell Boulevard).
(A) 
Southbound only between the south corporate limits of the city at Lakeline Boulevard and Avery Ranch Road, a distance of 0.50 miles, the speed limit shall be 50 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Avery Ranch Road and 930 feet south of Cypress Creek Road, a distance of 1.21 miles, the speed limit shall be 50 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between 929 feet south Cypress Creek Road and Buttercup Creek Boulevard, a distance of 0.34 miles, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(D) 
Between Buttercup Creek Boulevard-Brushy Creek Road and Cedar Park Drive, a distance of 0.68 miles, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(E) 
Between Cedar Park Drive and 158 feet south of Walton Way, a distance of 0.97 miles, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(F) 
Between 158 feet south of Walton Way and Red Oak Street, a distance of 0.97 miles, the speed limit shall be 50 miles per hour.
(G) 
Between Red Oak Street and Cedar Park North City Limits (121 feet north of Woods Lane), a distance of 0.60 miles, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(2) 
RM 1431 (Whitestone Boulevard).
(A) 
Between Sam Bass Road and Parmer Lane (FM 734), a distance of 1.502 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Parmer Lane and a point 1034 feet west of Cottonwood Creek Trail, a distance of 1.634 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between a point 1034 feet west of Cottonwood Creek Trail and US 183, a distance of 1.357 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(D) 
Between US 183 and Lakeline Boulevard, a distance of 1.322 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(E) 
Between Lakeline Boulevard and the Williamson/Travis County Line (a point 454 feet west of Anderson Mill Road), a distance of 0.534 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(F) 
Beginning at the Williamson Co. and Travis Co. Line (a point approximately 37' east of the centerline of Anderson Mill Road) to the west city limit at milepoint 24.021, a distance of 1.468 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(3) 
Bagdad Road.
(A) 
Between RM 1431 and New Hope Drive, a distance of 0.88 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between New Hope Drive and Kettering Drive, a distance of 0.46 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour except within the Leander High School marked school zone which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 30 miles per hour during the effective times as posted.
(4) 
New Hope Drive.
(A) 
Between RM 1431 and New Hope Spur (Gann Ranch entrance), a distance of 0.610 miles, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between New Hope Spur (Gann Ranch entrance) and Lakeline Boulevard, a distance of 0.605 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Lakeline Boulevard and Bagdad Road, a distance of 0.653 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(D) 
Between Bagdad Road and Bell Boulevard (US 183), a distance of 0.609 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(E) 
Between Bell Boulevard (US 183) and Main Street, a distance of 0.319 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(F) 
Between Main Street and 183A, a distance of 0.875 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(G) 
Between 183A and the eastern corporate city limits, a distance of 0.545 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(5) 
Cypress Creek Road.
(A) 
Between 183A and US 183, a distance of 0.56 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between US 183 and Lakeline Boulevard, a distance of 1.73 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour, except between the marked school zone of Faubion Elementary School, which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 30 miles per hour during the effective hours as posted.
(C) 
Between Lakeline Boulevard and the west city limit at El Sol, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour, except between the marked school zones of Cedar Park Middle School and Cedar Park High School, which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 30 miles per hour during the effective hours as posted.
(6) 
Lakeline Boulevard.
(A) 
Between the south corporate limits of the city at West Riviera Drive and Cypress Creek Road, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Cypress Creek Road and Buttercup Creek Boulevard, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Buttercup Creek Boulevard and Whitestone Boulevard (RM 1431), the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(D) 
Between Whitestone Boulevard (RM 1431) and the north corporate limits of the city, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour, except between the marked school zones of Mason Elementary School and Running Brushy Middle School, which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 30 miles per hour during the effective hours as posted.
(7) 
Brushy Creek Road.
(A) 
Between Parmer Lane and Darkwoods Drive, a distance of 2.08 miles, the maximum prima facie speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour, except between the marked school zone of Cox Elementary which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 30 miles per hour during the effective hours as posted.
(B) 
Between Parmer Lane and the east corporate limits of the city, a distance of 2.01 miles, the maximum prima facie speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Bell Boulevard and Cougar Avenue, a distance of 0.44 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(8) 
Vista Ridge Boulevard.
(A) 
For northbound traffic.
(i) 
Beginning at Brushy Creek Road and extending north to RM 1431, a distance of approximately 1.66 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(ii) 
Beginning at the southern school zone sign north to the northernmost end school zone sign, a distance of approximately 0.72 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday during the effective hours as posted shall be 25 miles per hour and at all other times shall be 40 miles per hour.
(B) 
For southbound traffic.
(i) 
Beginning at RM 1431 and continuing south to Brushy Creek Road, a distance of approximately 1.66 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(ii) 
Beginning at the northern school zone sign south to the southernmost end school zone sign, a distance of approximately 0.72 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday during the effective hours as posted shall be 25 miles per hour and at all other times shall be 40 miles per hour.
(9) 
Colonial Parkway.
(A) 
For eastbound traffic.
(i) 
Beginning at Vista Ridge Boulevard and extending east to Parmer Lane, a distance of approximately 0.63 miles (3,325 ft.), the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(B) 
For westbound traffic.
(i) 
Beginning at Parmer Lane and continuing west to Vista Ridge Boulevard, a distance of approximately 0.63 miles (3,325 ft.), the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(10) 
Anderson Mill Road.
(A) 
Between FM 620 and Volente Road, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Volente Road and Old Mill Road/Dies Ranch Road, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Old Mill Road/Dies Ranch Road and Twin Creeks Club Drive, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(D) 
Between Twin Creeks Club Drive and Cypress Creek Road, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(E) 
Between Cypress Creek Road and Zeppelin Drive, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(F) 
Between Zeppelin Drive and Lime Creek Road, the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(G) 
Between Lime Creek Road and RM 1431 (Whitestone Boulevard), the speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(H) 
Between RM 1431 (Whitestone Boulevard) and Ambling Trail, the speed limit shall be 30 miles per hour.
(11) 
Arrow Point Drive.
Between RM 1431 and La Jaita Drive, a distance of 0.38 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(12) 
Buttercup Creek Boulevard.
Between US 183 and Lakeline Boulevard, a distance of 1.46 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour, except between the marked school zones of Cedar Park Charter Academy School, within which the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday shall be 20 miles per hour during the effective hours as posted.
(13) 
Cottonwood Creek Trail.
Between RM 1431 and New Hope Drive, a distance of 0.60 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(14) 
Discovery Boulevard.
Between US 183 and RM 1431, a distance of 0.83 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(15) 
Hatch Road.
Between RR620 and Spiderlily View Drive, a distance of 0.64 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(16) 
La Jaita Drive.
Between Cottonwood Creek Trail and Arrow Point Drive, a distance of 0.40 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(17) 
Market Street.
Between RM 1431 and Colonial Parkway, a distance of 0.31 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(18) 
Medical Parkway.
Between 183A frontage and Cottonwood Creek Trail, a distance of 0.65 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(19) 
Park Street.
(A) 
Between Vista Ridge Boulevard and Greater Scaup Lane, a distance of 0.61 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 40 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Greater Scaup Lane and Lynnwood Trail, a distance of 0.90 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Lakeline Boulevard and Bell Boulevard, a distance of 1.52 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(20) 
Ranch Trails.
Between Parmer Lane and the southeast termini of Ranch Trails at Salorn Lane, a distance of 0.90 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(21) 
Woodall Drive.
Between RM 1431 and New Hope Drive, a distance of 0.70 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(22) 
Gupton Way.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the prima facie maximum speed limit on those portions of Gupton Way routed in the city limits, is as hereinafter stated, which prima facie maximum speed limit shall be effective at all times except as specifically limited herein and signs will be erected giving notice of the prima facie maximum speed limit so declared to wit:
(A) 
Between Brushy Creek Road and E. Park Street, a distance of approximately 0.70 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 45 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between the north school zone sign and the south school zone sign, the prima facie maximum speed limit Monday through Friday during the effective hours as posted shall be 25 miles per hour and at all other times shall be 45 miles per hour.
(23) 
Old Hwy 183.
Between Bell Boulevard and Brushy Creek Road, a distance of 0.51 miles, the prima facie maximum speed limit shall be 35 miles per hour.
(24) 
Ronald Reagan Boulevard.
(A) 
From the north city limit to Caballo Ranch Road, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Caballo Ranch Road and New Hope Drive, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between New Hope Drive and RM 1431 (Whitestone Boulevard), the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(25) 
Parmer Lane (FM 734).
(A) 
Between RM 1431 (Whitestone Boulevard) and Ranch Trails/Kenai Drive, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(B) 
Between Ranch Trails/Kenai Drive to Brushy Creek Road, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(C) 
Between Brushy Creek Road and the south corporate city limit, the speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour.
(Ordinance CO15-11-02-10-C1 adopted 2/10/11; Ordinance CO34-11-08-11-C1 adopted 8/11/11; Ordinance CO01-13-10-03-C1 adopted 10/3/13; Ordinance CO23-15-04-23-C1 adopted 4/23/15; Ordinance CO01-16-10-27-E1 adopted 10/27/16; Ordinance CO04.24.10.24.E1 adopted 10/24/2024)
The city shall adopt by separate ordinance construction speed limits for roadways approved for construction which will supersede the speed limits shown in section 17.03.004 until such construction is formally accepted by the city.
(1) 
Whitestone Boulevard (RM 1431).
Between Market Street and Sam Bass Road, a distance of 2.12 miles, the construction speed limit shall be 50 mph.
(Ordinance CO50-14-06-12-C1 adopted 6/12/14)