Chapter 10.20
SPEED LIMITS1
Sections:
10.20.030 Special conditions – Reduction.
10.20.010 Generally.
No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway, street, or alley, within the city at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazard then existing. In every event, speed shall be so controlled as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance, or on entering an arterial street, or the highway, in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care. (Ord. 406 § 1, 1971).
10.20.020 Maximum.
(a) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with DMC 10.20.010, or as provided in Chapter 10.16 DMC, the limits specified herein shall be maximum, lawful speeds, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a street, alley, or highway, within the corporate limits of the city at a speed in excess of such maximum limits, as follows:
(1) State Route No. 2, from the west city limits to the east city limits: 30 miles per hour;
(2) State Route No. 28 from the south corporate limits of the city, north to Highway Engineer’s Station 434/92.8: 40 miles per hour; from Highway Engineer’s Station 434/92.8 to the junction of State Route No. 28 with State Route No. 2: 30 miles per hour;
(3) Third Street from Morgan Street to south city limits: 30 miles per hour.
(4) McInnis Road from State Route 25 to the Davenport city limits: 30 miles per hour.
(b) All other public streets of the city, other than described in subsection (a) of this section: 25 miles per hour for cars and pickups, and 15 miles per hour for trucks; all alleys within the city: five miles per hour. (Ord. 1068 § 1, 2012; Ord. 570 § 1, 1982; Ord. 406 § 2, 1971).
10.20.030 Special conditions – Reduction.
The driver of every vehicle shall, consistent with requirements of DMC 10.20.010, drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, or railway grade crossing, and when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when travelling upon any narrow or winding roadway, and when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic, or by reason of weather or road conditions. (Ord. 406 § 3, 1971).
For statutory authority of cities to increase the maximum speed limit on any portion of a state highway or arterial street within their jurisdiction, see RCW 41.61.415.