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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 3 : Speed Limits

15-301 : In general.

  1. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motorized vehicle faster than twenty-five (25) miles per hour on any neighborhood, secondary, or dead-end street.
  2. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions are used.
    1. "Dead-end street" is defined as a street with only one (1) inlet/outlet.
    2. "Neighborhood street" is defined as a type of street normally characterized by relatively low speeds, wide ranges of traffic volumes, narrower lanes, frequent intersections and driveways, significant pedestrian traffic and more businesses and houses.
    3. "Secondary street" is defined as a road supplementary to a main road suitable for two-way traffic.
    4. "Speed" is based on the following classifications:
      1. "Average speed." The summation of the instantaneous or spot-measured speeds at a specific location of vehicles divided by the number of vehicles observed.
      2. "Design speed." A selected speed used to determine the various geometric design features of a roadway.
      3. "Eighty-fifth (85th) percentile speed." The speed at or below which eighty-five percent (85%) of the motor vehicles travel.
      4. "Operating speed." A speed at which a typical vehicle or the overall traffic operates. Operating speed might be defined with speed values such as the average, pace, or eighty-fifth (85th) percentile speeds.
      5. "Pace." The ten (10) miles per hour speed range representing the speeds of the largest percentage of vehicles in the traffic stream.
    5. "Speed limit" is defined as "the maximum (or minimum) speed applicable to a section of highway as established by law or regulation."
  3. Exceptions to this section include emergency vehicles.
  4. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) plus court costs for each separate violation of this section. Each occurrence of the violation of this section continues a separate violation. (Ord. #2014-12-100, Jan. 2015, modified)
Date Last Updated: 05/28/2024
Codification Date: 07/01/2020

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Ben Waller

Aldermen - Mickey Ankrom

Aldermen - Jeff Atkins

Aldermen - Eddie Douglas

Aldermen - Patsy Winstead Harrell

Recorder - Robin Jarnigan

Date Last Updated: 05/28/2024
Codification Date: 07/01/2020

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Ben Waller

Aldermen - Mickey Ankrom

Aldermen - Jeff Atkins

Aldermen - Eddie Douglas

Aldermen - Patsy Winstead Harrell

Recorder - Robin Jarnigan