§ 46-88. Speed limits for general vehicle operation.

(a)

City speed limits. The following speed limits shall govern within the corporate limits of the city, to-wit.

(1)

Intersections. No person driving or operating a motor or other vehicle shall turn at a street intersection or crossing at a greater rate of speed than 15 miles per hour.

(2)

General limit. No person shall drive or operate a motor or other vehicle, in, upon, along or across any public highway, street, alley, railway or thoroughfare, within the corporate limits of the city, at a greater rate of speed than 30 miles per hour.

(3)

Exceptions.

a.

The speed limits above set forth shall not apply to vehicles of the fire and police departments of the city, when in the regular course of their proper duty; and the speed limits shall not apply to ambulances, or physicians responding to emergency calls.

b.

Provided, that no such ambulance, or physician, shall exceed 50 miles per hour on such emergency calls.

c.

And further provided that the ambulance driver of any ambulance of any funeral home, hospital, or other establishment in the city, shall call the city marshal before making any emergency call, and inform the department as to the nature and location of such call.

(b)

Obedience to signals. Nothing in this provision shall be construed as prohibiting the driver of a vehicle from obeying the instructions of any police officer directing traffic, or any sign, signal or device directing the movement of traffic.

(Code 1994, § 10.139; Ord. No. 20, § 31, 12-4-1962)