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(b) Whenever the city manager shall determine on the basis of a trafic engineering and traffic investigation that slow speeds on any part of a highway consistantly impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the city manager may determine and declare a minimum speed limit to be set forth on slgns posted on such highway below which no person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law; provided that such minimum speed limit shall not apply to a school bus carrying children. (3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the city manager may decrease the speed limits set forth in subsections (t) (a) through (1) (c) of this section and may increase or de- crease the speed limits set forth in subsections (1) (f) through (1) (h) of this section; and may establish differentiated speed limits for daytime and nightime by decreasing for nighttime driv- ing the speed limits set forth in subsections (1) (a) through (1) (c) of this section and by increasing for daytime or decreas- ing for nighttime the speed limits set forth in subsections (1) (f) through (1) (h) of this section. Such increased or decreased spaed limits and such differentiated speed limits for daytime and nighttime driving shall be effective only when prescribed after a traffic engineering and traffic investigation and when indicated upon the highway by signs. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 18-25. Section 18-119. Stopping on highways generally. (a) No vehicle shall be stopped ~n such manner as to impede or render dangerous the use of the highway by others, ex- cept in the case of an emergency as the result of an accident or mechanical breakdown, in which case the emergency flashing lights of such vehicles shall be turned on if the vehicle ~s equipped with such lights and such lights are operating, and a report shall be made to the nearest police officer as soon as practicable and the vehicle shall be removed from the roadway to the shoulder as soon as possible and removed from the shoulder without unceces- sary delay; and, if said vehicle ~s not promptly removed, such removal may also be ordered by a police officer at the expense of the owner if the disabled vehicle creates a traffic hazard. (b) No person shall leave any vehicle, attented or un- attended upon the paved, improved or main traveled portion of any highway, outside of a business or residential district, when it is practicable to leave such vehicle standing off the paved, im- proved or main traveled portion of such highway. -5-