10.20.060 Speed limits.
(a) Except when a special hazard or road conditions exist that require lower speed for compliance with Standard Traffic Ordinance Section 32, no person shall drive a vehicle on a roadway, street, alley or highway at a speed greater than the posted speed limit for that area or district.
(b) If no speed limit is posted, the following speed limits shall apply:
(1) Thirty miles per hour in any urban district.
(2) Twenty miles per hour in any park.
(3) Fifteen miles per hour in any alley in both business and residential districts.
(c) It is hereby determined and declared that the maximum safe speed limit upon private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the owner is 12 miles per hour; provided, however, that the provisions of this section are not to be construed to prohibit the owner from requiring other or different speed limits. (Ord. 18814 § 1, 2-13-07. Code 1981 §§ 43-250, 43-251. Code 1995 § 142-187.)
State Law References:Authority to fix speed limits, K.S.A. 8-2002(a)(5), (a)(10), (a)(15); speed restrictions generally, K.S.A. 8-1557 et seq.