10.01.033 Maximum Speed Limits.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), or when a special condition or hazard exists that requires a lower speed for compliance with O.M.C. 10.01.032, the limits specified in this section or established as authorized by law shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of such maximum limits.
(1) In any business district, all vehicles twenty (20) miles per hour, unless posted otherwise.
(2) In any residence district, all vehicles twenty-five (25) miles per hour, unless posted otherwise.
(3) In any posted school zone on any day school is in session during those time periods set forth on erected signs or during those times a flashing yellow beacon is in operation with an erected sign, all vehicles twenty-five (25) miles per hour, unless posted otherwise; except for between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 9:30 P.M. seven days a week for the Kansas School for the Deaf.
(4) On any separated multilane highway as designated and posted by the Secretary of Transportation, all vehicles seventy-five (75) miles per hour.
(5) On any county or township highway, all vehicles 55 miles per hour.
(6) On all other highways unless posted otherwise, all vehicles 65 miles per hour.
(7) In any park under the jurisdiction of this City, all vehicles 20 miles per hour.
(b) No person shall drive a school bus to or from school, or interschool or intraschool functions or activities, at a speed in excess of the maximum speed limits provided in subsection (a), except that the board of education of any school district may establish by board policy lower maximum speed limits for the operation of such district’s school buses. The provisions of this subsection shall also apply to buses used for the transportation of students enrolled in community colleges or area vocational schools when such buses are transporting students to or from school functions or activities.
(c) The maximum speed limits established by or pursuant to this section may be altered as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1559, 8-1560, and 8-2002, and amendments thereto.
(d) Whenever the City Traffic Engineer shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed limit hereinbefore set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon any part of a street, the said City Traffic Engineer shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit thereon which shall be effective at all times during the daytime or nighttime when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected on such streets, pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1560 and 8-2002. As used in this section, daytime means from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset; nighttime means any other hour.
(e) The maximum speed to be posted within each school zone shall be determined by the City Traffic Engineer provided the speed limit shall not be less than 20 miles per hour. The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the school zone times within the City. (Ord. 16-48 § 1, 2016; Ord. 14-57 § 11, 2014; Ord. 08-51 § 1, 2008; Ord. 07-136 § 5, 2007; Ord. 01-89 § 2, 2001.)