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.
The City Traffic Engineer is 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.
Except where otherwise provided by signs erected pursuant to
duly passed and approved ordinances, no person shall operate a vehicle
on any street in the City in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per
hour.
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.
[R.O. 2012 §320.060; Ord. No. 602 §12(f), 11-4-1991]
No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty
(20) miles per hour upon any portion of the street adjoining a school,
provided that signs shall be placed so as to give notice of such speed
limit.
[R.O. 2012 §320.070; Ord. No. 581 §§1 — 2, 7-10-1989]
A.Â
Every
person operating a motor vehicle upon the public streets and highways
within the City or upon any public or private parking lot, or parking
lot for the use of customers, business invitees or employees of commercial
or industrial establishments, shall operate the same in a careful
and prudent manner, exercising the highest degree of care, and shall
operate their motor vehicles at a rate of speed so as not to endanger
the property of another or the life or limb of any person.
B.Â
When
signs have been previously erected, giving notice thereof, no person
shall operate any motor vehicle at a speed in excess of fifteen (15)
miles per hour upon any public or private parking lot within the City
at any time said lot shall be open to the public; nor upon any parking
lot for the use of customers, business invitees or employees of commercial
or industrial establishments at any time any such lot shall be open
for the use of such customers, invitees or employees.
C.Â
For purposes
of this Section, the term "operate" means physically
driving or operating or being in actual physical control of a motor
vehicle.
