City of pleasant hope missouri municipal code

Chapter 340 - Regulation of Speed

Section 340.010: Maximum Limits - Within Central Business Districts

No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty five miles per hour within a central business district.

Section 340.020: Outside Central Business Districts

Sub Section A. No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of thirty five miles per hour outside a central business district; provided, that the City of Pleasant Hope City Council is empowered to increase the speed limit on streets wherein, in his opinion by reasons of distance from the center of population width and conditions of roadway, and the amount of traffic thereon, a higher limit is reasonable and free from undue hazard.
Sub Section B. Adequate and clearly legible signs stating such increased speed limit shall be placed along all such streets and roadways.
Sub Section C. No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of the limits hereby designated.

Section 340.030: Speed Limit - Approach to Certain Intersections

No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour within one hundred feet of intersections plainly marked with such speed limits.

Section 340.040: Speed Limit - In School Zones

No person shall operate a vehicle in excess of fifteen miles per hour on any day when school is in session along the following streets between 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.:

1. 
   On Main Street from West Cowden Street North to 500 N. Main Street
   

2. 
   On Lewis Street from 100 West Lewis West to Pirate Lane.
   

3. 
   On Pirate Lane from Hwy 215 to W. Cowden St.
   

Section 340.050: Speed Greater Than Reasonable and Prudent

No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing.

Section 340.060: Minimum Speed

No person shall unnecessarily drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede normal traffic.

Section 340.080: Special Speed Zones in Construction Areas

"Notwithstanding any speed limit created by this chapter or by an ordinance as reflected in the Schedule I to Title III, the Director of City Services and Engineering is hereby authorized, by an order in writing, to establish a speed limit that is less than that provided by these ordinances along any portion of an alley, road, street, or highway where there is ongoing construction of either roadway or other utilities within the right of way for such alley, road, street or highway. Such speed limits shall be reasonable and consistent with the conditions created by virtue of the construction and expected construction, and all such reduced speed limits shall be visibly posted at either end of the stretch of alley way, road way, street or highway on, over or under which construction is ongoing or is imminently planned and shall also be placed at intervals of no less frequently than one-half (1/2) mile, if the total stretch of roadway where speed limits are to be limited is greater than that length. Upon the entry of an order consistent with this ordinance, such order shall be filed by the Director of City Services and Engineering with the City Clerk and shall be presented to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the next regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen who shall then, or at any later date, have the right to amend such order by ordinance in any manner that the Board shall

deem appropriate. However, the order of the Director shall be effective as of the date that it is filed with the office of the City Clerk and shall continue in effect unless and until the Board of Aldermen shall amend the same by ordinance or until it is earlier rescinded or amended by the Director and written notice thereof provided to the City Clerk."

Section 340:070: MoDOT Posted Speed Limit Signs (Ordinance 215, 07/10/2006)

City of Pleasant Hope allows Missouri Department of Transportation to post at each entrance to the City of Pleasant Hope, Missouri, on state and county roads, speed limit signs that state: SPEED LIMIT IS 35 MPH EXCEPT WHERE POSTED.

Section 340:080: Transition Speed limit Changes

Sub Section A. Adding a 45 mph transition speed limit on the north and south section of Highway H and East and West on Highway 215. Highway KK will be posted at 55mph.
Missouri Department of Transportation shall post the following speed limits within the City of Pleasant Hope on state and county roads as follows; (Ordinance 229 7/16/2007)
Highway H: 35 mph from 1640’ south of MO 215 to1830’ north of MO 215

35 mph from 3790’ north of MO 215 to 4610’ north of MO 215

45 mph from 1640’ south of MO 215 to 2800’ north of MO 215

45 mph from 4610’ north of MO 215 to 6095’ north of MO 215

25 mph from 1830’ north of MO 215 to 3790 north of MO 215

55 mph on Highway H in locations not specified above.

MO 215: 35 mph from Highway H to 1480’ east of Highway H

45 mph from 1480’ east of Highway H to 2495’ west of Highway H

45 mph from Highway H to 2325’ west of Highway H

55 mph from MO 215 in locations not specified above.

Highway KK: 55 mph within the city limits.

Chapter 341 - School Buses

Section 341.010: School Buses, Drivers to Stop For.

Sub Section A. The driver of a vehicle upon any public way in this City, including alleys, streets and highways, upon meeting or overtaking from any direction any school bus which has stopped on the public way for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children and whose driver has in the manner prescribed by law given the signal to stop shall stop the vehicle before reaching said school bus and shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion or until signaled by the driver to proceed.

Sub Section B. If any vehicle is witnessed by a Peace Officer or the driver of a school bus to have violated the provisions of this Section and the identity of the operator is not otherwise apparent, it shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person or persons in whose name such vehicle is registered committed the violation, but in the event that charges are filed against multiple owners of a motor vehicle, only one of the owners may be convicted and Court costs may be assessed against only one (1) of the owners. If the vehicle which is involved in the violation is registered in the name of a rental or leasing company and the vehicle was rented or leased to another person at the time of the violation, the rental or leasing company may rebut the presumption by providing the Peace Officer or City Attorney with a copy of the rental or lease agreement in effect at the time of the violation. The City Attorney shall not bring any legal proceedings against the rental or leasing company under this section, unless prior written notice that the violation has been given to that leasing company by registered mail at the address appearing on the registration and the rental or leasing company has failed to provide the rental or lease agreement copy within fifteen (15) days of receipt of such notice. Any lessee shown on a copy of the rental or lease agreement during the period of when the violation occurred shall rebuttably be presumed to be the person who committed the violation.

Section 341.020: School Buses, Signs Required on Buses

Sub Section A. Every bus used for the transportation of school children shall bear upon the front and rear thereon a plainly visible sign containing the words "School Bus" in letters not less than eight (8) inches in height. Each bus shall have lettered on the rear in plain and distinct type the following: "State Law: Stop while bus is loading and unloading." Each school bus subject to the provisions of Sections 340.050 to 340.070 RSMo shall be equipped with a mechanical and electrical signal devise approved by the State Board of Education which will display a signal plainly visible from the front and rear and indicating intention to stop.

Section 341.030: School Bus Driver Responsibilities

Sub Section A. The driver of a school bus in the process of loading and unloading students upon a public way in this City shall activate the mechanical and electrical signaling devices in the manner prescribed by the State Board of Education to communicate to drivers of other vehicles as students are loading or unloading. No driver of a school bus shall take on or discharge passengers at any location upon a public way consisting of four (4) or more lanes of traffic, whether or not divided by a median or barrier, in such manner as to require the passengers to cross more than two (2) lanes of traffic; nor shall he take upon or discharge passengers while the vehicle is on the public way proper unless the vehicle so stopped is plainly visible for at least one hundred (100) feet in each direction to drivers of other vehicles upon the public ways and only at such time as actually necessary to take on and discharge passengers.

Sub Section B. The driver of any school bus driving from the public ways of this City after loading or unloading school children should remain stopped if the bus is followed by three (3) or more vehicles until such vehicles have been permitted to pass the school bus if the conditions prevailing make it safe to do so.

Section 341.040: Penalties for Violations

Sub Section A. Any person violating the provisions of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be punished as provided by Section 365.110 (C) of the Pleasant Hope Municipal Code.