Speed Limit signs

If this is private land, you can post whatever signs you want, but enforcement is a whole 'nuther issue.

Have you ASKED the local authorities to patrol your roads? Our local police do come into our subdivision and WILL write tickets, etc. only after we officailly asked them to. They will not enforce speed limits under 25, however, due to the difficulty in monitoring anything less than that.

Do you have signs up that tell travellers that they are entering private property, travel at your own risk, etc? Just the size of your "common" area would be difficult to monitor. You need to have some help, either with local authorities or a private security company.

Diana, on private roads the HOA may post signs. If there is an accident with property or people injured it could be more difficult for the violator to be found innocent. IMO posting signs does not necessarily require enforcement.

Hey, we live in Texas! At least 75% of the homeonwers own a gun - if not more. There are a lot of critters out here.

Do it the Missouri way: ask, nicely, for the people who believe the signs will limit liability to provide relevant court cases with that included as the proof.

I bet you get no takers.

Thus, spare yourself the cost of the signs, installation, and maintenance (they will be used for target practice), and forget the signs. they add nor detract nothing from your overall liability (they neither help nor hinder any potential claims for idiocy).

Richard, if your Declaration of CC&Rs allows you to fine then you can enforce speed by passing a Rule on speeding and the amount of the fine. The fine can be set high enough to get speeders' attention and it can esculate with each offense. Make sure to give all owners a copy and sufficient time before going into effect.

As usual Kirk exhibits very uncommon common sense. There is little one can add to his thinking.

The issue here is not the signs, but enforcement. Under common law, even if you post the signs, if you do not enforce the rules, you end up losing the ability to do so. Your liability may be greater if you post signs without enforcement, than if you do not post signs.

Speed limit signs, like the Ten Commandments are mere suggestions these days.

If only residents are the primary users of roads, then periodic letters and persistent reminders via newsletters, etc. may be a far superior way to seek compliance.

Before installing signs, figger out how you are going to consistently enforce the limits. How are you going to determine (show with a preponderance of evidence) that somebody is dong 27 (or 32 or 35) in a 25 mile per hour zone? (Keep in mind that large vehicles such as trucks and school buses tend to appear to go faster than they actually do.)

There is a gold standard for finding the speed of a vehicle and it isn't all that expensive anymore. Use a radar gun. While not at the level of a Police department a hand held unit can be purchased for under $100. Then again, the people fighting it will spend much more in the process.

It really wouldn't be that tough to enforce the speed rules if you want to. And you might get much better results with the local busy body simply recording information on speeders.