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333.03 TRAFFIC CODE 52 distances or combinations thereof the Director approves as most appropriate: 1. The distance encompassed by 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. Nothing in this section shall be construed to invalidate the Director's . initial action on August 9, 1976, establishing all school zones at the traditional school zone boundaries defined by projecting school property lines, except when those boundaries are extended as provided in subsections (b)(1) A. and C. hereof. D. 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; (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. (c) 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 this 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 1990 Replacement