1. The Department of Transportation may prescribe speed zones, and install appropriate speed signs controlling vehicular traffic on the state highway system as established in chapter 408 of NRS through hazardous areas, after necessary studies have been made to determine the need therefor, and to eliminate speed zones and remove the signs therefrom whenever the need therefor ceases to exist. 2. After the establishment of a speed zone and the installation of appropriate signs to control speed, it is unlawful for any person to drive a motor vehicle upon the road and in the speed zone in excess of the speed therein authorized. 3. A person who violates subsection 2 shall be punished by a civil penalty of not more than $500. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1487; A 1979, 1805; 1985, 641; 2021, 3336)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.369)
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