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169.14 TRAFFIC REGUIdkTIONS 330 169.131 [Repaaled, 1976 c 103 s 1] 169.132 [Kepcaled, 1977 c 347 s 29] 169.14 SPEED 1LESTR/CTIONS. Subdivisiort 1. Basic rule; inattentive driring. No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed 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 existiag 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 {~ther conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care. Subd. 2. S ~.l~eed limits. (a) Where no special hazard exists the following speeds shall .be lawful, but afiy speeds in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reat;onable 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 mile{ per hour in residential roadways if adopted by the road authority hav- ing jurisdiction t>ver the residential roadway. (b) A speed, limit adopted under paragraph(a), clause (5), is not effective unless the road authon.'ty has erected signs designating the speed limit and indicating the beginning and e[ad 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 time when due to weather or other conditions there is not sufficient light to render clearlyidiscernible persons and vehicles at a distance orS00 feet. "Nighttime" means at any ot~er hour or at any time when due to weather or other conditions there is not suffi.cient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles at a distance of 500 feet.' Subd. 3. R~luced speed required. The driver of any vehicle shall, consistent with the requirement}, drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and cross- ing an intcrsecuDn 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 -qpecial hazards exist with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weathSr or high.way conditions. Subd. 4. Es[ablishment 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 o5 upon any part thereof, the commissioner may erect appropi-iate signs designating a reasonable and safe speed limit thereat, which speed limit shah be effec- tive when such signs are erected. Any speeds in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that th6 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 sh~tll be a maximum speed limit, and speed in excess of such limit shall be unlawful. Th6~commissioner may in the same manner from time to time alter the boundary ofsudl a zone and the speed limit therein or eliminate such zone. Subd. 5. Zon~ing within local areas. When local authorities believe that the existing 331 speed limit lions and nc or safe unde upon the ba: signs designr rize the ere¢ thereat, whi( in excess oft able or prud~ pality shall Alteration of the comm Subd. 5 speed limit engineering lion. The est consent of ti effect when hours or du:- 15 miles speed limit per hour or The ignating th( speed in erected by jur/sdictio. For tl'~ or highwa: or highwa7 provided: devices ar in place...' shall con Subt in distain limit in e- traffic in'. defined i: by resok' ment th~' so establ. speed a~ is establi of the re: erection Sub for alley investig be effec highwa> under tl highwa} an engi~ highwa: