Any person driving a vehicle on the streets and avenues of the city shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic surface and other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive any vehicle at such a speed as to endanger the life, limb or property of other persons. Except in those instances where a lower speed is specified in this chapter, it shall be prima facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same at a speed not exceeding the following, but in any case when such speed would be unsafe it shall not be lawful:
A. School: Fifteen (15) miles per hour when traveling on any street or avenue in the same block in which a school is located.
B. Driver's View Obstructed: Fifteen (15) miles an hour when approaching within fifty feet (50') and in traversing an intersection of streets and avenues when the driver's view is obstructed. A driver's view shall be deemed to be obstructed when, at any time during the last fifty feet (50') of his approach to such intersection, he does not have a clear and uninterrupted view of such intersection, and of the traffic upon all of the streets and avenues entering such an intersection, for a distance of two hundred feet (200') from such intersection. For vehicles traveling upon a properly designated through or arterial street, this speed limitation shall not apply.
C. Curves Or Grades: Fifteen (15) miles an hour in traversing or going around curves or traversing a grade, when the driver's view is obstructed within a distance of one hundred feet (100') along such street or avenue in the direction in which he is proceeding.
D. Business And Residential Districts; Trailer Courts: Twenty five (25) miles an hour on streets and avenues in the business and residential districts; except, that the speed limit shall be fifteen (15) miles an hour within the confines of any trailer court within the city, and in the hospital area on Seventh and Eighth Avenues Southeast, between Second Street Southeast and Third Street Southeast, and Second Street Southeast between Seventh and Eighth Avenues Southeast.
E. Alleys: Ten (10) miles an hour on any alley within the city.
F. North Central Avenue: Fifteen (15) miles an hour for the final one hundred fifty feet (150') of distance from the south on North Central Avenue in a northerly direction to the intersection of Second Street Southeast.
G. Second Street Northwest: Fifteen (15) miles an hour for the final one hundred fifty feet (150') of distance from the intersection of Second Street Northwest and North Central Avenue.
H. Railway Street: Ten (10) miles an hour on Railway Street at its intersection with North Central Avenue, with a sign to be placed two hundred feet (200') west of the intersection of West Railway Street and North Central Avenue showing the speed limit to be ten (10) miles an hour, and a sign placed one hundred fifty feet (150') east of the intersection of East Railway Street and North Central Avenue showing the speed limit to be ten (10) miles an hour. (Ord. 12.01, 8-7-2000)