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this city shall be hereinafter prescribed: (1) Maximum limits. (a) Seventy miles per hour on the interstate system of highways or other limited access highways with divided road- ways; if the vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle, passenger bus, United States post office bus, pickup or panel truck or a motor- cycle; and sixty miles per hour on such highways if the vehicle is a truck, road tractor, tractor truck, or combination of ~ehicl~s designed to transport property, or is a motor vehicle being used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house trailer. (b) Sixty miles per hour on nonlimited access highways having four or more lanes, if the vehicle ms a passenger motor vehicle, passenger bus, United States post office bus, pickup or panel truck or a motorcycle; and fifty-five miles per hour on such highways if the vehicle is a truck, road tractor, tractor truck, or combination of vehicles designed to transport property, or is a motor vehicle being used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house trailer, provided that for such high- ways such speed has been prescribed by the city manager after an engineering and traffic investigation. On any highway where such speed is prescribed, the speed shall be plainly indicated upon the highway by signs; and where the speed limit is indicated by posted signs, there shall be a prima facie presumption that such engineering and traffic investigation was made. (c) Fifty-five miles per hour on highways not included in (a) or (b) if the vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle, passen- ger bus, United States post office bus, pickup or panel truck or a motorcycle; and forty-five miles per hour on such highways if the vehicle ms a truck, road tractor, tractor truck, or combina- tion of vehicles designed to transport property, or is a motor vehicle being used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house trailer. (d) Thirty-five miles per hour on any highway other than an interstate highway, if the vehicle is being used as a school bus carrying children, and forty-five miles per hour on interstate highways; provided, however, that for any such vehicle which neither takes on nor discharges children between its point of origin and point of destination, the speed limit shall be forty-five miles per hour. (e) Forty-five miles per hour on any highway if the vehicle or combination of vehicles is operating under a special permit'issued by the state highway commission in accordance with Sections 46.1-330 and 46.1-343 of the Code of Virginia. The state highway ¢o~mission may, however, prescribe a speed limit -3-