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Section 23-105. Maximumapeed limit eStablished; placement, removal of s. igns, ~lgnal in school zones; authority of city ~anager to increase, reduce speed limits. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the city. manager, may decrease the speed, limits set forth in paragraphs ~1) through (3~ of subsection (a) of this section and may increase or decrease the speed limits set forth in paragraphs (6) through (8) of subsection (a) of this section; and he may establish differentiated speed limits for daytime and nightime by decreasing 'for nightime driving the speed limits set forth in paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (a) of this section and by increasing for daytime or decreasing for nightlme 'the speed limits set forth in paragraphs (6} through ('8) of subsection (a) of this section. Such'increased or decreased speed limits and such differentiated speed limits for daytime and nightime driving shall be effective only when prescribed after a traffic engineering and traffic investigation and when indicated upon the highway by signs° (c) Any person violating this section'shall be guilty of a traffic infraction and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 23-1.1 of this Chapter. Section 23-110. Applicability of division to emergency vehicle. (a) The speed limitations set forth in this Chaoter shall not apply to vehicles when operated with due regard f~r safety under the direction of the police in the chase or apprehension of violators of the law, or of persons charged with or suspected of any such violations, or in response to emergency calls, or in testing the accuracy of the radio microwave or other electrical devices specified in ~46.1-198 of the Code of Virginia, nor to fire department vehicles when traveling in response to an emergency call, nor to ambulances and rescue vehicleswhen traveling in emergencies outside the 'corporate limits of cities and towns. (b) These exemptions, hereinbefore granted to such'a moving vehicle, shall ap~ly only when the operator of such 'vehicle displays ~ ~lashin~, bl±nk~ng or ~lte~nat±ng re~ light or red and white l~ghts., And sounds, a siren; beI~l, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to gi~e automatically interm- ittent signals, as ~ay be reasonably necessary, and, only when there ~s in force and effect for such vehicle either standard automobile llab~lity, insurance covering ±njury or death to anyI one person In the sum of at least one hundred 9