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§ 70.05 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES; EXCEPTIONS.
   (A)   The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the state’s Rules of the Road or this title, unless otherwise directed by a peace officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in the Rules and this title.
   (B)   No provision of the Rules or this title for which traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by a reasonably observant person. Whenever any provision of the Rules or this title does not state that traffic control devices are required, such provision shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
   (C)   Whenever traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of the Rules or this title, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
   (D)   Any traffic control device placed pursuant to the Rules or this title and purporting to conform with the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of the Rules or this title unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,119) Penalty, see § 70.99
SPEED LIMITS
§ 70.20 BASIC RULE.
   No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing. A person shall drive at a safe and appropriate speed when approaching and crossing an intersection or railroad grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hillcrest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway and when special hazards exist with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,185) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.21 MAXIMUM LIMITS.
   (A)   Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with § 70.20, the limits set forth in this section and Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 60-6,187, 60-6,188, 60-6,305 and 60-6,313 shall be the maximum lawful speeds unless reduced pursuant to division (B) below, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of such maximum limits:
      (1)   Twenty-five mph in any residential district;
      (2)   Twenty mph in any business district;
      (3)   Fifty mph upon any highway that is gravel or not dustless surfaced;
      (4)   Fifty-five mph upon any dustless-surfaced highway not a part of the state highway system;
      (5)   Sixty-five mph upon any four-lane divided highway not a part of the state highway system; and
      (6)   Sixty-five mph upon any part of the state highway system other than an expressway, a super-two highway or a freeway.
   (B)   The maximum speed limits established in division (A) above may be reduced by the Department of Transportation or the Board of Trustees pursuant to § 70.22 or Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,188.
   (C)   The Board may erect and maintain suitable signs along highways under its jurisdiction in such number and at such locations as it deems necessary to give adequate notice of the speed limits established pursuant to division (A) or (B) above upon such highways.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,186) Penalty, see § 71.99
§ 70.22 ALTERNATIVE MAXIMUM LIMITS.
   (A)   Whenever the Department of Transportation determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that any maximum speed limit is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection, place or part of the state highway system outside of the corporate limits of cities and villages as well as inside the corporate limits of cities and villages on freeways which are part of the state highway system, it may determine and set a reasonable and safe maximum speed limit for such intersection, place or part of such highway which shall be the lawful speed limit when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection, place or part of the highway, except that the maximum rural and freeway limits shall not be exceeded. Such a maximum speed limit may be set to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon such signs.
   (B)   On all highways within its corporate limits, except on state-maintained freeways which are part of the state highway system, the Board of Trustees shall have the same power and duty to alter the maximum speed limits as the Department if the change is based on engineering and traffic investigation, except that no imposition of speed limits on highways which are part of the state highway system in the village shall be effective without the approval of the Department.
   (C)   Not more than six such speed limits shall be set per mile along a highway, except in the case of reduced limits at intersections, and the difference between adjacent limits shall not be more than 20 mph.
   (D)   When the Department or the Board determines by an investigation that certain vehicles in addition to those specified in Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 60-6,187, 60-6,305 and 60-6,313 cannot with safety travel at the speeds provided in §§ 70.21 and 70.22 and Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 60-6,187, 60-6,305 and 60-6,313 or set pursuant to this section, § 70.22 or Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,188, the Department or the Board may restrict the speed limit for such vehicles on highways under its respective jurisdiction and post proper and adequate signs.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,190)
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