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House Amendment 8034

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 268 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsection 6, Code
  1  5 Supplement 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1  6    6.  a.  Notwithstanding any other speed
  1  7 restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular
  1  8 traffic on fully controlled-access, divided,
  1  9 multilaned highways including is sixty-five miles per
  1 10 hour.  However, the speed limit for all vehicular
  1 11 traffic on highways that are a part of the national
  1 12 system of interstate highways is sixty-five seventy
  1 13 miles per hour, except that the speed limit on such
  1 14 highways for vehicles with a gross weight exceeding
  1 15 ten thousand pounds is sixty-five miles per hour.  The
  1 16 department may establish a speed limit of sixty-five
  1 17 miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned
  1 18 highways.  However, the
  1 19    b.  The department, or cities a city with the
  1 20 approval of the department, may establish a lower
  1 21 speed limit upon such highways on a highway described
  1 22 in this subsection that is located within the
  1 23 corporate limits of a city.
  1 24    c.  For the purposes of this subsection, a fully
  1 25 controlled-access highway is a highway that gives
  1 26 preference to through traffic by providing access
  1 27 connections with selected public roads only and by
  1 28 prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private
  1 29 driveway connections.
  1 30    d.  A minimum speed may be established by the
  1 31 department on the highways referred to in this
  1 32 subsection if warranted by engineering and traffic
  1 33 investigations.  It is further provided that any kind
  1 34 of
  1 35    e.  A vehicle, implement, or conveyance incapable
  1 36 of attaining and maintaining a speed of forty miles
  1 37 per hour shall be prohibited from using the interstate
  1 38 system."
  1 39    #2.  Title page, by striking line 2 and inserting
  1 40 the following:  "interstate".  
  1 41 
  1 42 
  1 43                               
  1 44 COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
  1 45 BRAUNS of Muscatine, Chairperson 
  1 46 HF 268.708 79
  1 47 nh/cls
     

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