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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ANOKA CITY OF CENTERVILLE ORDINANCE #16 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF HIGHWAYS \VITHIN THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE, Al~D THE IMPOSING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. The City Council of the City of Centerville, Minnesota, does ordain: SECTION 1. CARELESS DRNING. No person shall operate or halt any vehicles upon a street or highway within the City of Centerville, Minnesota, carelessly or heedlessly in disregard of the rights or safety of others or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property. SECTION 2. SPEED REGULATIONS. 1. No person driving a vehicle within the City of Centerville shall drive the same at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing. In every event speed shall be so restricted as may be necessary in order to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due-care. No person shall drive a vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. 2. No vehicle shall be driven thereon at a speed in excess of 30 miles per hour on any street on which a different speed has not been established by the commissioner of highways under M.S.A., Sect. 169.14. On any street where a different speed zone has been so established and signs have been posted calling attention to such zone, no vehicles shall be driven in the village at a speed greater than that indicated on such signs. SECTION 3. OPERATING AND TURNING VEHICLES. Upon all highways within the City of Centerville of sufficient width, except upon one way Btreets, or except upon those with three traffic lanes established and plainly marked thereon, the driver of a vehicle shall drive the same upon the right, half of the roadway and shall drive a slow moving vehicle as closely as possible to the right-hand edge or the curb of such highway, unless it is impracticable to travel on such side of the highway and except when overtaking and passing another vehicle. No person shall stop or turn a vehicle or change from one traffic lane to another unless the same can be done with safety and without interfering with the normal flow of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and if any other vehicle may be affected, the intention to make such stop, change of position or turn shall be indicated by the driver by extending his left arm from and beyond the left side of the vehicle in a manner specified by law or by using an approved and efficient device to give such warning and by giving an audible warning by sounding the horn if necessary to warn pedestrians.