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Senate File 462

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• Bill Introduced: S.J. 611
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.210, subsection 2, paragraph d,
  1  2 Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    d.  The first two speeding violations within any twelve-
  1  4 month period of ten five miles per hour or less over the legal
  1  5 speed limit in speed zones having a legal speed limit between
  1  6 thirty-four equal to or greater than thirty-five miles per
  1  7 hour and fifty-six but not greater than fifty-five miles per
  1  8 hour.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 321.285, subsections 4, 5, and 6, Code
  1 10 1997, are amended to read as follows:
  1 11    4.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed
  1 12 limit for all vehicular traffic shall be fifty-five sixty
  1 13 miles per hour.
  1 14    5.  a.  Reasonable and proper, but not greater than fifty-
  1 15 five miles per hour at any time between sunrise and sunset,
  1 16 and not greater than fifty miles per hour at any time between
  1 17 sunset and sunrise, on secondary roads unless such roads are
  1 18 surfaced with concrete or asphalt or a combination of both, in
  1 19 which case the speed limits shall be the same as provided in
  1 20 subsection 4 of this section.
  1 21    b.  Reasonable and proper, but not greater than fifty miles
  1 22 per hour at any time on secondary roads which are not surfaced
  1 23 with concrete or asphalt or a combination of both.
  1 24    c.  When the board of supervisors of any county shall
  1 25 determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
  1 26 investigation that the speed limit on any secondary road is
  1 27 greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions
  1 28 found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any
  1 29 part of a secondary road, the board shall determine and
  1 30 declare a reasonable and proper speed limit at the
  1 31 intersection or other part of the secondary road.  The speed
  1 32 limits as determined by the board of supervisors shall be
  1 33 effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed
  1 34 limits are erected by the board of supervisors at the
  1 35 intersection or other place or part of the highway.
  2  1    6.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed
  2  2 limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled-access, on
  2  3 divided, multilaned highways including the national system of
  2  4 interstate highways and highways which are part of the
  2  5 commercial and industrial network is sixty-five seventy miles
  2  6 per hour for all vehicular traffic except commercial vehicles
  2  7 and sixty-five miles per hour for commercial vehicles.  The
  2  8 department may establish a speed limit of sixty-five miles per
  2  9 hour on certain divided, multilaned highways.  However, the
  2 10 department or cities with the approval of the department may
  2 11 establish a lower speed limit upon such highways located
  2 12 within the corporate limits of a city.  For the purposes of
  2 13 this subsection, a fully controlled-access highway is a
  2 14 highway that gives preference to through traffic by providing
  2 15 access connections with selected public roads only and by
  2 16 prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private driveway
  2 17 connections.  A minimum speed may be established by the
  2 18 department on the highways referred to in this subsection if
  2 19 warranted by engineering and traffic investigations.
  2 20    It is further provided that any kind of vehicle, implement,
  2 21 or conveyance incapable of attaining and maintaining a speed
  2 22 of forty miles per hour shall be prohibited from using the
  2 23 interstate system.
  2 24    Sec. 3.  Section 516B.3, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
  2 25 amended to read as follows:
  2 26    1.  The commissioner shall require that insurance companies
  2 27 transacting business in this state not consider speeding
  2 28 violations occurring on or after July 1, 1986, but before May
  2 29 12, 1987, which are for speeding violations for ten miles per
  2 30 hour or less over the legal speed limit in speed zones that
  2 31 have a legal speed limit greater than thirty-five miles per
  2 32 hour, or speeding violations occurring on or after May 12,
  2 33 1987, which are for speeding violations for ten miles per hour
  2 34 or less over the legal speed limit in speed zones that have a
  2 35 legal speed limit equal to or greater than thirty-five miles
  3  1 per hour but not greater than fifty-five miles per hour, or
  3  2 speeding violations occurring on or after July 1, 1997, which
  3  3 are for speeding violations for five miles per hour or less
  3  4 over the legal speed limit in speed zones that have a legal
  3  5 speed limit equal to or greater than thirty-five miles per
  3  6 hour but not greater than fifty-five miles per hour for the
  3  7 purpose of establishing rates for motor vehicle insurance
  3  8 charged by the insurer and shall require that insurance
  3  9 companies not cancel or refuse to renew any such policy for
  3 10 such violations.  In any twelve-month period, this section
  3 11 applies only to the first two such violations which occur.  
  3 12                           EXPLANATION
  3 13    This bill increases the speed limit on divided, multi-laned
  3 14 highways and commercial and industrial network highways to 70
  3 15 miles per hour for all vehicular traffic except commercial
  3 16 vehicles.  The bill sets the speed limit on those highways for
  3 17 commercial vehicles at 65 miles per hour.  The bill also
  3 18 increases the general speed limit in the state to 60 miles per
  3 19 hour.  The maximum speed limit for paved secondary roads
  3 20 remains at 55 miles per hour, which now applies to both day
  3 21 and night.  The maximum speed on unpaved secondary roads is
  3 22 set at 50 miles per hour, day or night.  Commercial vehicles,
  3 23 generally, are vehicles designed to carry cargo or passengers
  3 24 and which have gross vehicle weights of over 26,000 pounds.
  3 25    The bill also provides that the first two speeding
  3 26 violations of five miles per hour or less in speed zones with
  3 27 legal speed limits of 35 to 55 miles per hour do not count for
  3 28 purposes of license suspension or insurance.  
  3 29 LSB 2222XS 77
  3 30 mk/jj/8.2
     

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