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1. General. Every driver of a motor vehicle on a street shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface, and width of the street and of any other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive a vehicle on any street at a speed greater than will permit said driver to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead, such driver having the right to assume, however, that all persons using said street will observe the law.
2. State Code Speed Limits. The following speed limits are established in Section 321.285 of the Code of Iowa, and any speed in excess thereof is unlawful unless specifically designated otherwise in this chapter as a special speed zone:
A. Business District, 20 MPH.
B. Residence or school district, 25 MPH
C. Suburban district, 45 MPH.
3. Cemeteries and Parking Lots. A speed in excess of 15 MPH in any cemetery or parking lot, unless specifically designated otherwise in this chapter, is unlawful.
4. Special Speed Restrictions. In accordance with requirements of the Iowa Department of Transportation, or whenever the Council shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed limit listed in Subsection 2 of this section 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 City street system, the Council shall determine and adopt by ordinance such higher or lower speed limit as it deems reasonable and safe at such location. The following special speed zones have been established:
A. Special 20 Miles MPH Zones. A speed in excess of 20 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Streets within City parks.
B. Special 25 MPH Zones. A speed in excess of 25 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Campus Drive.
(2) Clark Street, from the east boundary line of N.W. 114th Street to the east boundary line of Cownie Park Plat, an official Auditor’s plat, located in and forming a part of the City.
(3) Forest Avenue, from the west boundary line of N.W. 114th Street to the most westerly point thereof lying east of Interstate I-35/I-80.
(4) N.W. 114th Street, from the south boundary line of Hickman Road south to a point located 500 feet south of the south end of the bridge over Walnut Creek.
C. Special 25 MPH School Zones. A speed in excess of 25 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof during the designated school speed limit hours as designated by flashing amber lights and warning signs:
(1) Douglas Parkway, from 200 feet west of the Berkshire Parkway east to corporate limits.
D. Special 30 MPH Speed Zones. A speed in excess of 30 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(2) N.W. 86th Street, from the south line of University Boulevard to south line of Hickman Road.
(1) Swanson Boulevard, from the west line of N.W. 86th Street west to a point located at the west property line of 9289 Swanson Boulevard and Swanson Boulevard.
E. Special 35 MPH Speed Zones. A speed in excess of 35 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Alice’s Road, from 280th Street north to a point two-tenths of a mile south of Meredith Drive.
(2) Douglas Parkway, from east corporate limits to west corporate limits.
(3) Hickman Frontage Road, from the east line of N.W. 111th Street to the west line of N.W. 108th Street.
(4) N.W. 86th Street, from the south corporate limits to the south line of University Boulevard.
(5) N.W. 100th Street, from the south corporate limits to the north corporate limits.
(6) N.W. 114th Street, from the south boundary line of Interstate Investment Subdivision, an official plat, located in and forming a part of the City to the north boundary line of University Avenue.
(7) N.W. 128th Street, from the south corporate limits to the north corporate limits.
(8) N.W. 142nd Street.
(9) N.W. 156th Street, from the south corporate limits north to the north corporate limits.
(10) Polk County, to the north boundary line of University Avenue.
(11) Swanson Boulevard, from the east line of N.W. 100th Street east to a point located at the west property line of 9289 Swanson Boulevard and Swanson Boulevard.
(12) University Avenue, from the east corporate limits to a point located 700 feet west of the intersection with the southbound exit ramp of Interstate I-35/I-80.
(13) University Boulevard, from the eastern terminus thereof west to the east line of N.W. 86th Street.
F. Special 40 MPH Speed Zones. Based upon State Department of Transportation study and recommendation, a speed in excess of 40 miles per hour is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Hickman Road from a point located 1,300 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 86th Street to the east corporate limits.
G. Special 45 MPH Speed Zones. Based upon State Department of Transportation study and recommendation, a speed in excess of 45 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Hickman Road or U.S. Highway 6 from a point located 565 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 128th Street east to a point located 250 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 111th Street.
(2) Hickman Road or U.S. Highway 6 from a point located 650 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 100th Street to a point located 1,300 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 86th Street.
H. Special 50 MPH Speed Zones. Based upon State Department of Transportation study and recommendation, a speed in excess of 50 miles per hour is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Hickman Road, also known as U.S. Highway 6 from a point located 250 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 111th Street east to a point located 650 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 100th Street.
(2) Hickman Road, also known as U.S. Highway 6 from a point located 565 feet west of the intersection with N.W. 128th Street west to the west corporate limits.
I. Special 65 MPH Speed Zones. A speed in excess of 65 MPH is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof:
(1) Interstate I-35/I-80 from the south corporate limits to the north corporate limits.
5. Minimum Speed. 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.
1. Authority to Mark. The City Manager may cause markers, buttons, or signs to be placed within or adjacent to intersections and thereby require and direct, as traffic conditions require, that a different course from that specified by the State law be traveled by vehicles turning at intersections, and when markers, buttons, or signs are so placed, no driver of a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at an intersection other than as directed and required by such markers, buttons, or signs.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.311)
2. U-Turns. It is unlawful for a driver to make a U-turn at any one of the following places:
A. Any location other than an intersection.
B. An intersection that is controlled with automatic traffic signals.
C. Any location where a sign prohibiting U-turns is posted.
3. Right Turn On Red Signal Prohibited. Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal shall not proceed or make a right turn at locations when appropriate signs are in place.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.257[2])
4. No Turns Permitted. When appropriate signs are in place, no driver shall make either a right or left turn at the following locations:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.311)
A. 8737 University Avenue. Vehicles exiting 8737 University Avenue onto N.W. 86th Street shall not turn left onto N.W. 86th Street.
B. Hickman Frontage Road. Vehicles traveling west on Hickman Frontage Road shall not turn left at N.W. 86th Street.
C. N.W. 86th Street. Vehicles traveling north on N.W. 86th Street shall not turn left at the entrance to 8737 University Avenue.
1. Temporary Embargo. If the Council declares an embargo when it appears by reason of deterioration, rain, snow, or other climatic conditions that certain streets will be seriously damaged or destroyed by vehicles weighing in excess of an amount specified by the signs, no such vehicles shall be operated on streets so designated by such signs.
(Code of Iowa, Secs. 321.471 and 472)
2. Permits for Excess Size and Weight. The Director of Public Works may, upon application and good cause being shown therefor, issue a special permit in writing authorizing the applicant to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight or load exceeding the maximum specified by State law or the City over those streets or bridges named in the permit which are under the jurisdiction of the City and for which the City is responsible for maintenance. A fee shall be paid by the applicant for the permit, with the amount of the fee determined in accordance with an established fee schedule, which fee schedule may be modified from time to time with the approval of the Council. Immediately upon issuing such permit, the Director of Public Works shall notify the Police Chief.
(Code of Iowa, Secs. 321.473 and 321E.1)
3. Truck Traffic Prohibited:
A. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate any motor truck licensed to carry more than 10 tons upon any of the following streets or parts of streets:
(Code of Iowa, Secs. 321.473 and 475)
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B. The Council may, by motion, grant special permission allowing a person to operate motor trucks where prohibited by Subsection 3A of this section for a period of not more than one year per request, provided the person establishes each of the following:
(1) Denial of special permission for such usage would prohibit all motor truck access to the person's real property.
(2) Denial of special permission for such usage would create an unreasonable hardship to the person and the person's real property.
4. Load Limits On Bridges. Where it has been determined that any City bridge has a capacity less than the maximum permitted on the streets of the City, or on the street serving the bridge, the Director of Public Works may cause to be posted and maintained signs on said bridge and at suitable distances ahead of the entrances thereof to warn drivers of such maximum load limits, and no person shall drive a vehicle weighing, loaded or unloaded, upon said bridge in excess of such posted limit.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.471)
5. Truck Routes. Truck route regulations are established as follows:
A. Definitions. For use in this subsection, the following terms are defined:
(1) “Light delivery truck,” “panel delivery truck,” “delivery truck,” or “pickup truck” means any motor vehicle designed to carry not more than 2,000 pounds of merchandise or freight of any kind.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.1[5])
(2) “Motor truck” means every motor vehicle designed primarily for carrying livestock, merchandise, freight of every kind, or over nine persons as passengers, except light delivery trucks, panel delivery trucks, delivery trucks, and pickup trucks.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.1[4])
B. Truck Routes Designated. Motor trucks, as defined in Subsection (5)(A)(2) of this section, having no fixed terminal within the City or making no scheduled or definite stops within the City for the purpose of loading or unloading shall travel over or upon the following streets within the City and none other:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.473)
(1) Hickman Road.
(2) Interstate 35/80 from the south corporate limits to the north corporate limits.
(3) University Avenue.
(4) University Boulevard.
(5) N.W. 86th Street.
C. Deliveries Off Truck Route. Any “motor truck,” as defined in Subsection (5)(A)(2) of this section, having a fixed terminal, making a scheduled or definite stop within the City for the purpose of loading or unloading, shall proceed over or upon the designated routes set out in this section to the nearest point of its scheduled or definite stop and shall proceed thereto, load or unload and return, by the most direct route, to its point of departure from said designated route.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.473)
D. Employer’s Responsibility. The owner, or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the driver of any motor truck shall not require or knowingly permit the operation of such vehicle upon a street in any manner contrary to this section.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.473)
E. Exceptions. The provisions of this section do not apply to fire apparatus, school buses, and other motor vehicles owned and operated by a governmental agency, road machinery, implements of husbandry temporarily moved upon a highway, or to a vehicle operated under the terms of a special permit issued as provided in this title.
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