Greenfield Municipal Code Ch. 10.08 Speed Limits

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For statutory provisions authorizing cities to reduce speed limits on city streets, see Vehicle Code §22358.

A. The council of the city, having determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the vehicle speed limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour is more than is reasonable or safe upon those streets or portions of streets hereinafter described, determines and declares the prima facie vehicle speed limits hereinafter designated for each of said described streets or portions of streets, which speed limits it finds most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and to be reasonable and safe, and the city engineer is directed to erect and maintain appropriate speed restriction signs, as specified by the California Vehicle Code, at the outside entrances of the restricted speed zones described in this chapter.

B. The city council of the city, having determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that a vehicle speed limit greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be reasonable and safe upon those streets, or portions of streets, hereinafter described in this subsection, determines and declares the prima facie vehicle speed limits hereinafter designated for each of said described streets, or portions of streets, and the city engineer is directed to cause to be erected and maintained appropriate speed restriction signs, as specified by the California Vehicle Code, at the outside entrances of the restricted speed zones described in this chapter.

C. Any person who violates any speed limit established by this section is guilty of an infraction, in accordance with the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 77 § 1, 1961; Ord. 303 §§ 1, 2, 1985; Ord. 400 § 1, 1997; Ord. 495 § 1, 2011; Ord. 547 § 1(Exh. A), 2020)