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169.14 TRAJVFIC REGULATIONS 33O 169.I31 [Repealed, 1976 c 103 s i] 169.I32 [Repealed, 1977 c 347 s 29] 169.14 SPEED RESTRICTIONS. Subdivision 1. Basic rule; inattentive driving./'40 person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a spee~l greater 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 the 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. Sub& 2. Speed limits. (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 munidpality 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 mileslper hour in alleys; and (5) 25 miles per hour in residential roadways if adopted by the road authority hav- ing jurisdiction o{,er the residential roadway. (b) A speed limit adopted 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 the residential roadway on which the speed limit applies. (c) "Daytime" means from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, except at any timo when due to weather or other conditions there is not sufficient light to render clearly, c[iscernible persons and vehicles at a distance of 500 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 Yehicles at a distance of 500 feet.' Subd. 3. Redtmed speed required. The driver of any vehicle shall, consistent with the requirements,!drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and cross- ing an intersection or railway grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a'hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding road- way', and when s~ecial hazards exist with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weatherr or highway conditions. Subd. 4. Establishment of zones by commissioner. On determining upon the basis of an engir~eering and traffic investigation that any speed set forth in this section is greater or less tha..n is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist on any trunk highway or upon any 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 begifining and end of the zone, designating a reasonable and safe speed therefor, which m~y 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 ia 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 up tions and not or safe under upon the basi: signs designat rize the erecti thereat, whick in excess of th, able or pruder pality shall be Alteration of ~ of the commi: Sub& 5a. speed limit w/ engineering ar tion. The estal consent of the effect when ch hours or duri~ 15 miles per ~, speed limit or per hour or gs The schot ignating the si speed in exce erected by tht jurisdictions: For the [ or highway w: or highway fr. provided the devices adop' in place. All ~ shall conforrr Sub& 51 in distance o: limit in execs traffic invest: defined in se~ by resolution ment the spe so establishe speed and in is establishet of the resolu' erection of f Subd. 5 for alleyway: investigatior be effective' Subd. 5 highways an under their. highway wo an engineep; highway wo