§ 10-3-30. Authority to change speed limits.

(a)

The city manager is authorized to increase or decrease the speed limits on city streets set forth in §§ 46.2-873 through 46.2-875 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, and incorporated by §§ 10-3-873 through 10-3-875 of this code, and to establish differential speeds for daytime and nighttime driving on such streets, provided that any such increase or decrease in speed limit, or differential speed limit, shall be based upon an engineering and traffic investigation by the director of transportation and environmental services.

(b)

The director of transportation and environmental services is authorized to decrease, for a temporary period not to exceed 60 days, without such engineering and traffic investigation, the speed limit on any city street on which work is being done or which is under construction or repair.

(c)

Any increase or decrease in speed limits established under this section shall be indicated by signs as provided in section 10-2-26 of this code.

(d)

Whenever the speed limit on any city street has been increased or decreased, or a differential speed limit established, and such speed limit is posted as required, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the change in speed was properly established in accordance with the provisions of this section. (Ord. No. 4143, 6/17/00, Sec. 1)