(a) All operators of any vehicle in the city are required to maintain
evidence or proof of financial responsibility.
(b) All operators of any vehicle in the city, shall upon request by a
city patrol officer, provide to that patrol officer, evidence or proof
of financial responsibility.
(c) Failure to provide evidence or proof of financial responsibility
shall authorize the city patrol officer to cause the vehicle to be
towed to a storage facility.
(Ordinance 405 adopted 1/12/21)
No person shall drive a vehicle on any street in the city at
a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions
and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing.
In every event, speed shall be so controlled as may be necessary to
avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other conveyance on or
entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and it
shall be the duty of all persons to use due care. No person shall
operate or drive any motor vehicle or other vehicle within the corporate
limits of the city on any street at a greater speed than thirty (30)
miles per hour, or in any alley at a greater speed than fifteen (15)
miles per hour, unless signs are erected designating another speed
limit.
(Ordinance 38, sec. 3(A), adopted 9/8/81; 1982 Code, ch. 9, sec. 3(A))
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.
(Ordinance 38, sec. 3(B), adopted 9/8/81; 1982 Code, ch. 9, sec. 3(B))
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 of a motor vehicle by a driver
shall be a misdemeanor.
(Ordinance 38, sec. 3(C), adopted 9/8/81; 1982 Code, ch. 9, sec. 3(C))
Pursuant to section
12.03.032, the following streets or portions thereof shall be designated as special speed zones, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle thereon at a speed greater than indicated:
(1) Highways generally.
The speed limits on highways FM
3186, FM 356, and U.S. 190 within the city limits shall be as established
by the state department of transportation.
(2) U.S. Highway 190.
(A) From mile point 0.839, at the west city limits, approximately 1.213
miles east, to mile point 2.052, the speed limit shall be fifty-five
(55) miles per hour in either direction.
(B) From mile point 2.052, approximately 0.278 miles east, to mile point
2.330, the speed limit shall be fifty (50) miles per hour in either
direction.
(C) From mile point 2.330, approximately 1.476 miles east, to mile point
3.806, the speed limit shall be forty (40) miles per hour in either
direction.
(D) From mile point 3.806, approximately 0.388 miles east, to the east
city limits, mile point 4.194, the speed limit shall be fifty (50)
miles per hour in either direction.
(3) FM Highway 3459.
Beginning at its intersection with
U.S. Highway 190 to the city limits, a distance of approximately 0.576
mile, the speed limit shall be fifty (50) miles per hour in either
direction.
(4) FM Highway 356.
(A) From mile point 3.277, at the north city limits, approximately 0.723
miles south, to mile point 4.000, the speed limit shall be fifty-five
(55) miles per hour in either direction.
(B) From mile point 4.000, approximately 0.630 miles south, to mile point
4.630, the speed limit shall be fifty (50) miles per hour in either
direction.
(C) From mile point 4.630, approximately 0.986 miles south, to the end
of the pavement, mile point 5.616, the speed limit shall be forty
(40) miles per hour in either direction.
(5) Old Trinity Road.
(A) Beginning at the east intersection of Old Trinity Road and FM 356,
west to a point south of its intersection with U.S. 190, a distance
of 0.3394 miles, the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per
hour in either direction.
(B) From the point of intersection of Old Trinity Road North and U.S.
190 west to its intersection with FM 355 North, a distance of 0.3494
miles, the speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour in
either direction.
(6) Hodge Bottom Road.
Beginning at FM 356 N and Hodge Bottom
Road a distance of 0.7 miles, the speed limit shall be twenty-five
(25) miles per hour in either direction.
(Ordinance 38, sec. 3(D), adopted 9/8/81; Ordinance 71 adopted 7/10/84; Ordinance 118 adopted 6/20/89; Ordinance
195 adopted 8/12/97; 1982 Code, ch. 9, sec. 3(D); Ordinance 236 adopted 12/12/00; Ordinance
272 adopted 8/10/04; Ordinance 294 adopted 6/26/06; Ordinance 295 adopted 6/26/06; Ordinance 423 adopted 6/14/22)
(a) FM 356.
The speed limit in the school zone designated
shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour during certain time periods,
and appropriate markings and signs designating the area as a school
zone shall be installed, and the speed limit within the school zone
shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour, forty-five (45) minutes
before and until school classes begin, from the beginning to the end
of the lunch period, and for a thirty (30) minute period beginning
at the close of school. The school zone to be designated is as follows:
FM 356 in the vicinity and in front of the school, Highway Engineering
Station 316 + 83.20 to Highway Engineering Station 327 + 39.20.
(b) FM 3459.
From mile point 9.856, a point approximately
2.004 miles north of U.S. Highway 190, to mile point 10.383, a point
approximately 1.467 miles north of U.S. Highway 190, the speed limit
shall be thirty-five (35) mph when lights are flashing and remain
fifty-five (55) mph all other times in either direction.
(Ordinance 38, sec. 4, adopted 9/8/81; 1982 Code, ch. 9, sec. 4; Ordinance 291 adopted 2/14/06)