(A) The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets within the City, except where the Common Council, as authorized by state law, properly declares and determines, upon the basis of engineering and traffic investigation, that certain speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets or in certain areas.
(B) On the basis of having performed an engineering and traffic investigation of all public highways within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Lawrence, and having thereby determined that certain speed regulations, either more restricted or greater than the speeds specified generally by statute for certain areas as set forth at I.C. 9-21-5-2, were necessary and more reasonable upon specified streets or public ways, or portions thereof, the Common Council of the City of Lawrence hereby declares that the reasonable, safe and proper maximum speed limits to be permitted on all City streets, alleys and public ways shall be not greater than as set forth and established by this chapter.
(C) It shall be prima facie unlawful for any person operating or using a motor vehicle on a public way within the City of Lawrence to drive the vehicle at a speed in excess of the speed so declared and fixed for those locations when signs are in place at all necessary locations giving notice thereof.
(D) Alteration of state prima facie speed limits is hereby declared to be accomplished within the City of Lawrence through the establishment herein of the below-specified speed limits on the following designated streets, or portions thereof, all as authorized by law. Any violation thereof, in a manner declared unlawful in division (C) above, shall subject the violator to the terms, conditions and penalties for moving traffic violation offenses as prescribed in § 3-2-8-5 of this code.
Penalty, see §§ 3-2-8-1 et seq.