(A) No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway or on any parking lot, drive, driveway, road, roadway, street or alley upon the grounds and premises of any public or private hospital, college, university, benevolent institution, school, orphanage, church or any of the institutions maintained and supported by the town or by the county or state, or upon the grounds and premises of any service station, drive-in theater, supermarket, store, restaurant or office building, or any other business or municipal establishment, providing parking space for customers, patrons or the public at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing.
(Prior Code, § 11-38)
(B) Except as otherwise provided by official traffic-control signs where in place along the streets, it shall be unlawful to drive a vehicle in excess of the following speeds:
(1) Twenty miles per hour in any business district;
(2) Thirty-five miles per hour in any residential district;
(3) Forty-five miles per hour in places other than those named in divisions (A)(1) and (2) above for:
(a) All vehicles other than passenger cars, regular passenger vehicles, pickup trucks of less than 1-ton capacity and school busses loaded with children; and
(b) All vehicles of whatever kind which are engaged in towing, drawing or pushing another vehicle; provided that this division shall not apply to vehicles engaged in towing, drawing or pushing trailers with a gross weight of not more than 3,000 pounds.
(4) Fifty-five miles per hour in places other than those named in divisions (B)(1) and (2) for passenger cars, regular passenger carrying vehicles and pick-up trucks of less than 1-ton capacity.
(Prior Code, § 11-39) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Similar state law, see G.S. § 20-141, subsec.(a)
Speed restrictions and authority of town to impose certain speed limits, see G.S. §§ 20-141, 20-158, 20-169