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169.14 TRAFFIC REGULATIONS 330 169.131 [Repealed, 1976 c 103 s 1] 169.132 [Repealed, 1977 c 347 s 29] 169.14 SPEED RESTRICTIONS. Subdivision 1. Basic rule; inattentive driving. No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greiter than is reasofiable and prudent under the conditions. Every driver is responsible for becoming and remaining aware of the actual and potential haz- ards then existing on th~ highway and must use due care in operating a vehicle. In every event speed shall be so :restricted as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any per- son, vehicle or other conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care. Subd. 2. Speed lira!ts. (a) Where no special hazard exists the following speeds shall .be lawful, but any speeds in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable'or prudent and that it is unlawful; except that the speed limit within any municipality shall be a maximum limit and any speed in excess thereof shall be unlawful: (1) 30 miles per hour in an urban district; (2) 65 miles per hour in other locations during the daytime; (3) 55 miles per hour in such other locations during the nighttime; (4) ten miles per hour in alleys; and (5) 25 miles per hogr in residential roadways if adopted by the road authority hav- ing jurisdiction over the residential roadway. (b) A speed limit a~lopted under paragraph (a), clause (5), is not effective unless the road authority has erected signs designating the speed limit and indicating the beginning and end of tke residential roadway on which the speed limit applies. (c) "Daytime" meafls from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, except at any time when~due to weather or other conditions there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles at a distance of S00 feet. "Nighttime" means at any other hour~or at any time when due to weather or other conditions there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles at a distance of 500 feet. Subd. 3. Reduced speed required. The driver of any vehicle shall, consistent with the requirements, drive ~t an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and cross- ing an intersection or railway grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when approachin~a'hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding road- way, and when special hazards exist w~th respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions. Subd. 4. Establishment of zones by commissioner. On determining upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed set forth in this section is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist on any trunk highway or upon atiy part thereof, the commissioner may erect appropi-iate signs designating a reasonable ~and safe speed limit thereat, which speed limit shall be effec- tive when such signs are erected. Any speeds in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful; except that any speed limit within any municipality shall be a maximum limit and any speed in excess thereof shall be unlawful. On determining upon that basis that a part of the trunk highway system outside a municipality should be a zone of maximum speed limit, the commissioner may establish that part as such a zone by erecting appropriate signs showing the beginning and end of the zone, designating a reasonable and safe speed therefor, which may be different than the speed set forth in this section, and that it is a zone of maximum speed limit. The speed so designated by the commissioner within any such zone shall be a maximum speed limit, and speed in excess of such limit shall be unlawful. The commissioner may in the same manner from time to time alter the boundary of such a zone and the speed limit therein or eliminate such zone. Subd. 5. Zoning within local areas. When local authorities believe that the existing 331 speed limit upon any tions and not a part { or safe under existin upon the basis of an signs designating who rize the erection of, thereat, which speed in excess of these spec able or prudent and t pality shall be a ma~ Alteration of speed li of the commissioner' Subd. 5a. Speed: speed limit within a :: engineering and traff~ tion. The establishmc: consent of the comn effect when children hours or during scho 15 miles per hour an speed limit on an afl per hour or greater. The school speec: ignoring the speed an speed in excess of su erected by the local jurisdictions and by' For the purpose or highway which ab~ or highway from the provided the school. devices adopted by t in place. Ail signs err' shall conform to the Subd. 5b. Segm in distance of any ci: limit in excess of 30 x: traffic investigation ' defined in section 1 ~ by resolution declarc ment the speed limi so established shall ~ speed and indicatin.~ is established, and a of the resolution sha erection of the signs Subd. 5c. Speet for alleyways as deft investigations. Alley be effective when pr Subd. Sd. Spee~I highways and tempe' under their jurisdic~ highway work zone~ an engineering and ' highway work zone. 5o7