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~, CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 65 -~ Page 2 and warrant shall specify the time, place, and the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, and also, the speed which this section declares shall be prima facie lawful at the time and place of such alleged violation. (ORC 4511.21; Ord. 2928. Passed 10-6-59}" be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 333.03 SPEED LIMITATIONS: ASSURED CLEAR DISTANCE AHEAD. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in and upon the streets and highways 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. It shall be prima facia lawful for the operator of a motor vehicle to operate the same at a speed not exceeding the following: (a) Twenty miles per hour when passing a school building or the grounds thereof during school recess and while children are going to or leaving schoal during the opening or closing hours, and when appropriate signs giving notice of the existence of the school are erected; (b) Twenty-five miles per hour in all other portions of the Municipality, except on State routes, through streets and through highways outside business districts; (c) Thirty-five miles per hour on all State routes or through streets and through highways within the Municipality outside business districts, provided that appropriate signs giving notice of the altered speed limits shall be erected at those locations; (d) Fifty miles per hour on Brookpark Road from Lorain Road easterly to the Parkview line. It is prima facie unlawful for any person to exceed any of the speed limitations in any section of this Traffic Code. In every charge of violation of this section the affidavit and warrant shall specify the time, place and the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, and also, the speed which 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 that will permit him to bring the vehicle to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead, the affidavit and warrant need not specify the speed at which the defendatat is alleged to have driven. (ORC 4511.21) Section 2: That this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare by virtue of the fact that