§ 82-305. Speed zones.

(a)

The city council is authorized and empowered to determine and establish upon any street or highway within the city or any part thereof, limited speed zones which shall provide the speed limit which constitutes the maximum speed at which any person may drive or operate any vehicle within such zone, street, highway or portion thereof so zoned and on which street or highway the maximum speed permissible in such zone has been conspicuously posted by appropriate signs.

(b)

Limited speed zones shall be conspicuously posted by appropriate signs. The beginning and end of such limited speed zones shall be indicated by signs showing the maximum speed limits permissible within the zone.

(c)

The city council may change the speed limit or the extent of any such limited speed zone at any time it may deem necessary.

(d)

The following speed limits are established for the streets and portions of streets enumerated as follows:

Street	Extent	Speed
Main Avenue South	From 175 feet south of 1 st Street South to 3,960 feet south of 20 th Street South	35
Medary Avenue	From 325 feet north of North Campus Drive to US Highway 14 Bypass	35
	From US Highway 14 Bypass to the north city limits	45
Medary Avenue South	From 70 feet south of 16th Street South to the south city limits	35
22nd Avenue	From US Highway 14 Bypass to the south city limits	35
8th Street South	From the west city limits to 22nd Avenue South	35
20th Street South	From Main Avenue South to 22nd Avenue South	35
34th Avenue	From US Highway 14 to US Highway 14 Bypass	35
	From US Highway 14 to the south city limits	35
US Highway 14	From the west city limits southeasterly to a point 1,560 feet northwesterly of the intersection of US Highway 14 and Western Avenue	55
	From 1,560 feet northwesterly of Western Avenue to 100 feet northwesterly of Western Avenue	40
	From 100 feet northwesterly of Western Avenue to 370 feet east of 17th Avenue	30
	From 370 feet east of 17th Avenue to the east city limits	35
US Highway 14 Bypass	From the west city limits to the east city limits	55
West 2nd Street South	From Western Avenue to Division Avenue	35
Western Avenue	From West 2nd Street South to north city limits	35
Western Avenue South	From West 8th Street South to south city limits	35
West 20th Street South	From Main Avenue South to Western Avenue South	25
	From Western Avenue South to west city limits	35

 

(e)

It is unlawful for any person to operate or drive any vehicle on any street within the city at a speed in excess of 25 miles per hour, unless signs are erected on streets within the city designating another speed limit is applicable.

(Code 1996, §§ 34-140, 34-141; Ord. No. 18-00, § I(34-140, 34-141), 7-10-2000; Ord. No. 18-02, § I, 8-12-2002; Ord. No. 02-05, § I, 2-22-2005; Ord. No. 32-07, § I, 11-13-2007; Ord. No. 22-12, § I, 8-14-2012; Ord. No. 20-14 , 9-9-2014; Ord. No. 14-029 , 1-27-2015; Ord. No. 17-025 , 12-12-2017)