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<br />alleyways as defined in section 169.01 based on their own engineering and traffic investigations. <br />Alleyway speed limits established at other than ten miles per hour shall be effective when proper <br />signs are posted. <br />Subd. 5d. Speed zoning in work zone; surcharge. (a) The commissioner, on trunk <br />highways and temporary trunk highways, and local authorities, on streets and highways under <br />their jurisdiction, may authorize the use of reduced maximum speed limits in highway work <br />zones. The commissioner or local authority is not required to conduct an engineering and traffic <br />investigation before authorizing a reduced speed limit in a highway work zone. <br />(b) The minimum highway work zone speed limit is 20 miles per hour. The work zone speed <br />limit must not reduce the established speed limit on the affected street or highway by more than <br />15 miles per hour, except that the highway work zone speed limit must not exceed 40 miles <br />per hour. The commissioner or local authority shall post the limits of the work zone. Highway <br />work zone speed limits are effective on erection of appropriate regulatory speed limit signs. The <br />signs must be removed or covered when they are not required. A speed greater than the posted <br />highway work zone speed limit is unlawful. <br />(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), on divided highways the commissioner or local authority <br />may establish a highway work zone speed limit that does not exceed 55 miles per hour. <br />(d) For purposes of this subdivision, "highway work zone" means a segment of highway <br />or street where a road authority or its agent is constructing, reconstructing, or maintaining the <br />physical structure of the roadway, its shoulders, or features adjacent to the roadway, including <br />underground and overhead utilities and highway appurtenances, when workers are present. <br />(e) Notwithstanding section 609.0331 or 609.101 or other law to the contrary, a person who <br />violates a speed limit established under paragraph (b) or (c), or who violates any other provision <br />of this section while in a highway work zone, is assessed an additional surcharge equal to the <br />amount of the fine imposed for the speed violation, but not less than $25. <br />Subd. 5e. Speed limit on park road. The political subdivision with authority over a park <br />may establish a speed limit on a road located within the park. A speed limit established under <br />this subdivision on a trunk highway is effective only with the commissioner's approval. A speed <br />limit established under this subdivision must be based on an engineering and traffic investigation <br />prescribed by the commissioner of transportation and must not be lower than 20 miles per hour, <br />and no speed limit established under this subdivision may reduce existing speed limits by more <br />than 15 miles per hour. A speed limit established under this subdivision is effective on the <br />erection <br />of appropriate signs designating the speed limit and indicating the beginning and end of the <br />reduced speed zone. Any speed in excess of the posted speed is unlawful. <br />Subd. 6.[Repealed, Exl971 c 27 s 49] <br />Subd. 7. Burden of proof. The provisions of this chapter declaring speed limitation shall not <br />be construed to relieve the plaintiff in any civil action from the burden of proving negligence on <br />