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Sec. 18-33. Maximum and minimum speed limits; posting,
etc., of school zones.[196]

No person shall drive any vehicle upon a street of this city
at a speed in excess of:

(a) Twenty-five miles per hour in a business or residential

district unless otherwise prescribed by the proper authorities
of the city pursuant to the provisions of Code of Virginia,
section 46.1-180;

(b) Thirty-five miles per hour, except in business or residence
districts and except as otherwise provided by this section
or unless otherwise prescribed by the proper authorities
of the city pursuant to the provisions of section 46.1-180 of
the Code of Virgina;

(c) Thirty-five miles per hour if the vehicle is being used
as a school bus carrying children, except as otherwise provided
in this section;

(d) Twenty-five miles per hour between portable signs, tilt
over signs or fixed blinking signs placed in or along any
street bearing the word "School." Such word shall indicate
that school children are present in the vicinity. Any signs
erected under this section shall be placed not more than
three hundred feet from the limits of the school property or
crossing in the vicinity of the school which is used by children
going to and from the school; provided, that such crossings
are not more than five hundred yards from the limits
of the school property and the city council approves such
crossing for such signs. Such portable signs shall be furnished
and delivered by the city. It shall be the duty of the
principal or chief administrative officer of each school or
some responsible person designated by the school board,
preferably not a classroom teacher, to place such portable
signs in the street at a point not more than three hundred
feet from the limits of the school property and remove such
signs when their presence is no longer required by this subsection.
Such portable tilt over signs or fixed blinking signs
shall be placed in position plainly visible to vehicular traffic
approaching from either direction, but shall not be placed
so as to obstruct the street. Such portable signs, till over
signs or blinking signals shall be in a position or be turned
on for thirty minutes preceding regular school hours and for
thirty minutes thereafter and during such other times as
the presence of children are in such school property or going
to and from school reasonably requires a special warning to
motorists. The city council may decrease the speed limit provided
in this subsection; provided, that no such decrease in
speed limit shall be effective unless such decreased speed limit
is conspicuously posted upon the portable signs, tilt over
signs or fixed blinking signs required by this subsection.

(e) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow
speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of
traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation
or in compliance with law.

(f) Whenever the city manager determines on the basis of
a traffic engineering and traffic investigation that slow speeds
on any part of a street consistently impede the normal and
reasonable movement of traffic, the city manager may determine
and declare a minimum speed limit to be set forth on
signs posted on such street below which no person shall drive
a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance
with law.

(g) Pursuant to a traffic engineering and traffic survey as
required by section 46.1-180, Code of Virginia, as amended,
the following speed limits are imposed as hereinafter set
forth:

                                                                                                                             

Street	From	To	Speed Limit
Alderman Road	Ivy Road	Corporate limits (Univ. of Va.)	25
Angus Road	Emmet Street	Corporate limits	25
Avon Street	Levy Avenue	South corporate limits	25
Barracks Road	Corporate limits	Millmont Street	35
Barracks Road	Millmont Street	Rugby Road	25
Brandywine Drive	Hydraulic Road	Greenbrier Drive	25
Carlton Road	Monticello Road	Meade Avenue	25
Cedar Hill Road	Hydraulic Road	Angus Road	25
Cherry Avenue	Cleveland Avenue	1st Street	35
Cleveland Avenue	Cherry Avenue	Jefferson Park Avenue	25
Elliott Avenue	1st Street	Ware Street	35
Elliott Avenue	Ware Street	Monticello Avenue	25
Emmet Street	Jefferson Park Avenue	Ivy Road	25
Emmet Street	Ivy Road	Route 250 By-Pass	40
Emmet Street	Route 250 By-Pass	Hydraulic Road	40
Fontaine Avenue	Corporate limits	Jefferson Park Avenue	35
Grady Avenue	Preston Avenue	Rugby Road	25
Greenbrier Drive	Brandywine Drive	Rio Road	25
Harris Road	Jefferson Park Avenue	5th Street Extended	25
High Street	Long Street (Rt. 250)	9th Street	25
High Street	9th Street	Preston Avenue	25
Hydraulic Road	Emmet Street (Rt. 29)	Route 250 By-Pass	25
Ivy Road	Corporate limits	Emmet Street	35
Jefferson Park Avenue	Harris Road	Cleveland Avenue	25
Jefferson Park Avenue	Cleveland Avenue	Fontaine Avenue	35
Jefferson Park Avenue	Fontaine Avenue	Emmet Street	35
Jefferson Park Avenue	Emmet Street	West Main Street	25
Locust Avenue	High Street	Locust Lane	25
Main Street	E. 9th Street	W. 14th Street	25
Market Street	Corporate limits	Preston Avenue	25
Maury Avenue	Jefferson Park Avenue	Stadium Road	25
Meadowbrook Heights Road	Route 250 By-Pass	Yorktown Drive	25
McIntire Road	Preston Avenue	Route 250 By-Pass	35
Monticello Avenue	South corporate limits	Blenheim Avenue	35
Monticello Avenue	Blenheim Avenue	Avon Street	25
Monticello Road	Monticello Avenue	9th Street Bridge	25
Old Lynchburg Road	Corporate limits	Jefferson Park Avenue	25
Park Street	North corporate limits	Route 250 By-Pass	35
Park Street	Route 250 By-Pass	High Street	25
Preston Avenue	Rugby Road	10th Street	25
Preston Avenue	10th Street	Market Street	25
Ridge Street	Main Street	End of maintenance	25
Rose Hill Drive	Preston Avenue	Rugby Avenue	35
Rugby Avenue	Rugby Road	Route 250 By-Pass	35
Rugby Road	University Avenue	Preston Avenue	25
Rugby Road	Preston Avenue	Barracks Road	25
Shamrock Road	Jefferson Park Avenue	Cherry Avenue	25
Stadium Road	Emmet Street	Corporate limits	25
University Avenue	14th Street	Emmet Street	25
Water Street	Main Street	9th Street	25
Yorktown Drive	Meadowbrook Heights Road	Brandywine Road	25
5th Street	Cherry Avenue	South corporate limits	25
9th Street, E.	Levy Avenue	High Street	25
Route 250 By-Pass	East corporate limits	McIntire Park entrance	35
Route 250 By-Pass	McIntire Park entrance	Four hundred feet west of Emmet Street	45
Route 250 By-Pass	Four hundred feet west of Emmet Street	West corporate limits	55
9th Street, W.	Cherry Avenue	Main Street	25
10th Street, W.	Main Street	Preston Avenue	25
Meade Avenue	Market Street	High Street	25
14th Street, N. W.	West Main Street	Two hundred and fifty feet north of Grady Avenue	25
Madison Avenue, N. W.	Two hundred and fifty feet north of Grady Avenue	Preston Avenue	25
4th Street, N. W.	West Main Street	Preston Avenue	25

(h) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided
in section 46.1-16 of the Code of Virginia. (Code 1959, § 18-33;
6-21-65, §§ 7, 8; 8-7-67; 5-20-68; 4-23-73; 6-25-73; 10-15-73;
11-19-73.)