Agenda - Public Works Committee - 06/17/2003

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Minnesota Statut~ 2002, 169.14 ~'age ~ ox o Minnesota Stare_ t~ _2~O02~ .Table of Chapters Table of content_s_[or__.C~hapter 169 169.14 ~edil&mits, zones; ra~Lar. Subdivision 1~ Duty to drive with due care. No person shall ~riVe a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reaso~abie and prudent under the conditions. Every driver is responsible for becoming and remaining aware of the actual and potential hazards then existing on the highway and must use due Car~ in operating a vehicle. In every event speed shall be so r~st~icted as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person,,vehicle or other conveyance on or entering the highway in co~91~ance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons t8 use due care. Subd. 2. I S~eed limits. (a) Where no special hazard exists the following speeds shall be lawful, but any speeds in excess of suc~ limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not ~eaSonable or prudent and that it is unlawful; except that t~e ~peed limit within any municipality shall be a maximum limitland any speed in excess thereof shall be unlawful: (1) ~0 mil~s Per hour in an urban district or on a town road in a rural residential district; (2) 65 mil~s ~er hour on non-Interstate freeways and expressways, ?s ~efined in section 160.02, subdivision 19; (3) 55 mil~s per hour in locations other than those specified in ~thiS section; (4) 70 mi~es ~er hour on Interstate highways outside the limits of an~ u~an~zed area w~th a population of greater than 50,000 as de~ine~ by order of the commissioner of transportation; ' (5) 65 mi~es Per hour on Interstate highways inside the limits of an~ u~banized area with a population of greater than 50,000 as defined by order of the commissioner of transportation;~ (6) ten m~leS per hour in alleys; and (7) 25 miies ~ger hour in residential roadways if adopted by the road author%ty having jurisdiction over the residential roadway. ' (b) A spe~d timit adopted under paragraph (a), clause (7), is not effec%iv~ unless the road authority has erected signs designating ~he ~speed limit and indicating the beginning and end of the residential roadway on which the speed limit applies. (c) For p~rp~ses of this subdivision, "rural residential district" meAnslthe territory contiguous to and including any town road wi~hi~ a subdivision or plat of land that is built up with dwellin9 hguses at intervals of less than 300 feet for a hRp ://www.revi~or.l~g.state.mn.us/stats/169/14.html 3/21/2003