10.52.300 - Basic rule and maximum limits.

(a)

No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway 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 controlled as may be necessary 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.

(b)

Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with subsection (a) of this section, the limits specified in RCW 46.61.400(2) or established pursuant to RCW 46.61.405, 46.61.410 and 46.61.415 shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of such maximum limits.

(1)

Twenty-five miles per hour on city and town streets;

(2)

Fifty miles per hour on county roads;

(3)

Sixty miles per hour on state highways.

The maximum speed limits set forth in this section may be altered as authorized in RCW 46.61.405, 46.61.410, and 46.61.415.

(c)

The driver of every vehicle shall, consistent with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section, drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and crossing an intersection or railway grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, and when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4001), 1970).

10.52.305 - Unlawful to exceed posted speed.

It is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to operate said vehicle upon any public highway within Mason County in excess of the posted speed thereon.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4005), 1970).

10.52.310 - Maximum speed on unposted roads.

It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to operate the vehicle in excess of twenty-five miles per hour on any public highway in the county of Mason which is not otherwise posted.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4010), 1970).

10.52.315 - Posting of signs.

The county road engineer shall cause to be posted on all county roads a sufficient number of speed limit signs to clearly indicate the maximum speed allowed upon such roads.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4190), 1970).

10.52.320 - Minimum speed regulations.

No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4251), 1970).

10.52.325 - Maximum speed limit when passing school or playground crosswalks.

Subject to Section 10.52.300(a), and except in those instances where a lower maximum lawful speed is provided by this chapter or otherwise, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to operate the same at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour when operating any vehicle upon a public highway either inside or outside an incorporated city or town when passing any marked public school or playground crosswalk when such marked crosswalk is fully posted with standard portable school or speed control signs. The speed zone at the crosswalk shall extend three hundred feet in either direction from the marked crosswalk.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.440), 1970).

10.52.330 - Due care required.

Compliance with speed requirements of this chapter under the circumstances hereinabove set forth shall not relieve the operator of any vehicle from the further exercise of due care and caution as further circumstances shall require.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.445), 1970).

10.52.335 - Maximum speed, weight or size in traversing bridges, elevated structures, tunnels, underpasses—Posting limits.

It is unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle or any combination of vehicles over any bridge or other elevated structure or through any tunnel or underpass constituting a part of any public highway at a rate of speed or with a gross weight or of a size which is greater at any time than the maximum speed or maximum weight or size which can be maintained or carried with safety over any such bridge or structure or through any such tunnel or underpass when such bridge, structure, tunnel, or underpass is signposted as provided in RCW 46.61.450.

Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of this section, proof of either violation of maximum speed or maximum weight, or size, or either, and the distance and location of such signs as are required, shall constitute conclusive evidence of the maximum speed or maximum weight, or size, or either, which can be maintained or carried with safety over such bridge or elevated structure or through such tunnel or underpass.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.4501), 1970).

10.52.340 - Vehicles with solid or hollow cushion tires.

It is unlawful to operate any vehicle equipped or partly equipped with solid rubber tires or hollow center cushion tires, or to operate any combination of vehicles any part of which is equipped or partly equipped with solid rubber tires or hollow center cushion tires, so long as solid rubber tires or hollow center cushion tires may be used under the provisions of this title, upon any public highway of this county at a greater rate of speed than ten miles per hour.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.455), 1970).

10.52.345 - Special speed limitation on motor-driven cycle.

No person shall operate any motor-driven cycle at any time mentioned in Section 10.40.020 at a speed greater than thirty-five miles per hour unless such motor-driven cycle is equipped with a head lamp or lamps which are adequate to reveal a person or vehicle at a distance of three hundred feet ahead.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.460), 1970).

10.52.350 - Exceeding speed limit evidence of reckless driving.

The unlawful operation of a vehicle in excess of the maximum lawful speeds provided in this chapter at the point of operation and under the circumstances described shall be prima facie evidence of the operation of a motor vehicle in a reckless manner by the operator thereof.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.465), 1970).

10.52.355 - Charging violations of speed regulations.

In every charge of violation of any speed regulation in this chapter the complaint, also the summons or notice to appear, shall specify the approximate speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, also the maximum speed applicable within the district or at the location.

(Res. 78 § 1 (46.61.475), 1970).