(A) In general. It shall be a civil offense for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle upon any highway or street at a rate of speed in excess of 30 mph, except where official signs have been posted indicating other speed limits, in which cases the posted speed limit shall apply.
(1994 Code, § 15-301)
(B) At intersections. It shall be a civil offense for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle through any intersection at a rate of speed in excess of 15 mph unless such person is driving on a street regulated by traffic-control signals or signs which require traffic to stop or yield on the intersecting streets.
(1994 Code, § 15-302)
(C) In school zones.
(1) (a) Generally, pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-153, special speed limits in school zones shall be enacted based on an engineering investigation, shall not be less than 15 mph and shall be in effect only when proper signs are posted with a warning flasher or flashers in operation.
(b) It shall be a civil penalty for any person to violate any such special speed limit enacted and in effect in accordance with this division (C).
(2) When the City Commission has not established special speed limits as provided for above, any person who shall drive at a speed exceeding 15 mph when passing a school during a recess period when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation, or during a period of 40 minutes before the opening hour of a school or a period of 40 minutes after the closing hour of a school, while children are actually going to or leaving school, shall be prima facie guilty of reckless driving.
(1994 Code, § 15-303)
(D) In congested areas. It shall be a civil penalty for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle through any congested area at a rate of speed in excess of any posted speed limit when such speed limit has been posted by authority of the city.
(1994 Code, § 15-304)
(E) Cruising in motor vehicles on shopping center parking areas and roadway.
(1) Owners and operators of shopping centers in the city are hereby authorized to post signs on and about the parking areas and private roadways on their properties giving notice that cruising on the property is prohibited.
(2) The term CRUISING, as used in this section, is defined as the continual, repeated and aimless operation of a motor vehicle back and forth, through, around or within the parking areas and private roadways of a shopping center after 8:00 p.m. until the following sunrise other than for the purpose of entering or leaving a parking space where the vehicle has been parked while the driver or passenger(s) is or was visiting the shopping center or business.
(3) It shall be a violation of this section and a trespass for any person to cruise on any shopping center parking area and/or private roadways that have been posted by the owner or operator as authorized in division (E)(1) above.
(1994 Code, § 15-305)
(Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993; Ord. 498, passed 11-4-1993) Penalty, see § 71.99