01-80 Editing & inclusion of ordinances in Code

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-7- shall be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 333.03 MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS; ASSURED CLEAR DISTANCE AHEAD. (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle at a speed greater or less than is reasonable or proper., having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the street or highway and any other conditions, and no person shall drive any motor vehicle in and upon any street or highway at a greater speed than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead. (b) It is prima-facie lawful, in the absence of a lower limit deciared pursuant to Ohio R.C. 4511.21 by the Ohio Director of Transportation or Council, for the operator of a motor vehicle to operate the same at a speed not exceeding the following: (1)A. Bo Twenty miles per hour in school zones during school recess and while children are going to or leaving school during the opening or closing hours, and when appropriate signs giving notice of the existence of the school are erected; except, that on controlled- access highways and expressways, if the right-of-way line fence has been erected without pedestrian opening, the speed shall be governed by subsection (b)(4) hereof and on freeways, if the right-of-way line fence has been erected without pedestrian opening, the speed shall be goverend by subsection (b)(7) hereof. As used in this section, "school zone" means that portion of a State route designated a school zone by the Ohio Director of Transportation under subsection (b) (1)C. hereof, and that portion of a highway passing a school fronting upon the highway, or passing a school which has its principal school pupil ingress-egress via the highway, and bounded by whichever of the following distances the Director approves as most appropriate: 1. The distance encompassed b_y projecting the school building lines normal to the fronting highway and extending a distance of 300 feet on each approach direction; 2. The distance encompassed by projecting the school property lines intersecting the fronting highway and extending a distance of 300 feet on each approach direction; 3. The distance encompassed by the special marking of the pavement for a principal school pupil crosswalk plus a distance of 300 feet on each approach direction of the highway; 4. A distance of 600 feet using any combination or part thereof of the reference points described in subsections (b) (1)B.i., 2. and 3. hereof. Ce As used in this subsection, "crosswalk" has the meaning given that term in Section 301.09. The Director may, upon request by resolution of Council, and upon submission by the Municipality of such engineering, traffic and other information as the Director considers necessary, designate a school zone on any portion of a State route lying within the Municipality that includes a crosswalk customarily used by children going to or leaving a school during recess and opening and closing hours, whenever the distance, as measured in a straight line, from the school property line nearest the crosswalk to the nearest point of the crosswalk is no more than 1,320 feet. Such a school zone shall include the distance encompassed by the crosswalk and extending 300 feet on each approach direction of the State route;