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-8- (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (2) Twenty-five miles per hour in all other portions of the Municipality, except on State routes outside business districts, through highways outside business districts and alleys; (3) Thirty-five miles per hour on all State routes or through highways within the Municipality outside business districts, except as provided in subsections (b)(4) and (5) hereof; (4) Fifty miles per hour on controlled-access highways and expressways within the Municipality; (5) Fifty miles per hour on State routes within the Municipality outside urban districts unless a lower prima-facie speed is established as further provided in this section; (6) Fifteen miles per hour on all alleys within the Municipality; (7) Fifty-five miles per hour at all times on freeways with paved shoulders inside the Municipality. It is prima-facie unlawful for any person to exceed any of the speed limitations in subsections (b) (1)A. to (b) (6) hereof, or any declared pursuant to the section by the Director or local authorities and it is unlawful for any person to exceed the speed limitation in subsection (d) hereof. No person shall be convicted of more than one violation of this section for the same conduct, although violations of more than one provision of this section may be charged in the alternative in a single affidavit. No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon the streets or highways at a speed exceeding fifty-five miles per hour. In every charge of violation of this section the affadvit and warrant shall specify the time, place and speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, and in charges made in reliance upon subsection (c) hereof also the speed which subsections (b)(1)A. to (b)(6) hereof, or a limit declared pursuant Go this section declares is prima-facie lawful at the time and place of such alleged violation, except that in affidavits where a person is alleged to have driven at a greater speed than will permit him to bring the vehicle to a stop within the assured ~lear distance ahead the affidavit and warrant need not specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven. When a speed in excess of both a prima-facie limitation and the limitation in subsection (d) hereof is alleged, the defendant shall be charged in a single affidavit, alleging a single act, with a violation indicated of both subsections (b)(1)A. to (b)(6) hereof, or of a limit declared pursuant to this section by the Director or local authorities, and of subsection (d) hereof. If the court finds a violation of subsections (b)(1)A. to (b)(6) hereof, or a limit declared pursuant to this section has occurred, it shall enter a judgment of conviction under such subsection and dismiss the charge under subsection (d) hereof. If it finds no violation of subsections (b)(1)A. to (b)(6) hereof or a limit declared pursuant to this section, it shall then consider whether the evidence supports a conviction under subsection (d) hereof. Points shall be assessed for violation of subsection (d) hereof only when the court finds the violation involved a speed in excess of sixty miles per hour on highways as provided in subsection (b)(7) hereof~ Convictions for violation of subsection (d) hereof, or any ordinance enacted to reduce speeds in compliance with subsection (d) hereof, shall not be forwarded to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles as provided under Ohio R.C. 4507.40 unless points are assessed as provided in this subsection.