CZroe
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Maybe so, but state law supercedes city/local municipality laws. At least in Tennessee anyway, a city could but up a sign where ever they want... i.e., stops signs and speed limit signs. But there are state regulations that must be adhered to.
a recent case involved a city police chief who created a speed trap on state roads. Eventually the city had to pay back the people who were fined because of it. Although the road was in city limits they had no authority to write tickets.
So the OP needs to crack open the law books for his state. Most of the time the state laws mimic federal laws when dealing with this type of crap.
Yup. States often impose more restrictions on local police than state-level. For example, in GA, there are laws that saw how far away from a sign you must be after a speed limit changes to be issued a ticket but it does not apply to Georgia State Patrol. Same goes for grades (hills). They were meant to bust up corrupt speed-trap towns.
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