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On all streets other than primary roads and extensions of primary roads, there shall be erected by the City suitable standard signs or street markings showing the points at which the rate of speed changes and the maximum rate of speed in the district which the vehicle is entering. [Ref. Iowa Code §321.289]
A person shall not 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. Peace officers are hereby authorized to enforce this provision by directions to drivers, and in the event of apparent willful disobedience to this provision and refusal to comply with directions of an officer in accordance herewith the continued slow operation by a driver shall be a simple misdemeanor. The scheduled fine is Thirty-five Dollars ($35.00). ('91 Rev.; ’00 Rev.; Ord. #4552, 5/20/02) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.294]
The provisions of Sections 150 and 151 of this ordinance shall not be construed to relieve the plaintiff in any civil action from the burden of proving negligence upon the part of the defendant as the proximate cause of an accident. ('95 Rev.) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.292]
1. A person shall not drive a vehicle on any public bridge or elevated structure at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed permitted under this ordinance on the street or highway at a point where said street or highway joins said bridge or elevated structure. However, if the maximum speed permitted on said street or highway differs from the maximum speed on any other street or highway joining said bridge or elevated structure, then the lowest of those maximum speeds shall be the maximum speed limit on said bridge or elevated structure, unless the department upon request from any local authority, or upon its own initiative has conducted an investigation of the bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of the highway, and has found that the structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this ordinance. Under those circumstances, the department shall determine and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which thr structure can withstand, and shall cause or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be erected and maintained at a distance of two hundred feet before each end of such structure.
2. A person shall not drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure, when the structure is sign-posted as provided in this ordinance.
3. Upon the trial of any person charged with driving a vehicle at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure, proof of such determination of the maximum speed by said department and the existence of said signs shall constitute conclusive evidence of the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure.
('91 Rev.; Ord. #5006, 9/13/10) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.295]