Text: HF00234 Text: HF00236 Text: HF00200 - HF00299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsections 2 and 3, Code 1 2 2001, are amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. Twenty-five miles per hour in any residence or school 1 4 district. Each school district, as defined in section 321.1, 1 5 shall be marked by distinctive signs as provided by the 1 6 current manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted by 1 7 the department and placed on the road at the limits of the 1 8 school district. Each sign shall inform motorists that the 1 9 scheduled fine for committing a moving traffic violation in a 1 10 school district is doubled. 1 11 3. Forty-five miles per hour in any suburban district. 1 12Each school district as defined in subsection 70 of section1 13321.1 shall be marked by distinctive signs as provided by the1 14current manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted by1 15the department and placed on the highway at the limits of such1 16school district.1 17 Sec. 2. Section 805.8, subsection 2A, Code 2001, is 1 18 amended to read as follows: 1 19 2A. MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS – ROAD WORK ZONES AND 1 20 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The scheduled fine for any moving traffic 1 21 violations under chapter 321 as provided in this section shall 1 22 be doubled if the violation occurs within any road work zone 1 23 or school district, as defined in section 321.1. 1 24 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 1 25 3, shall not apply to this Act. 1 26 EXPLANATION 1 27 This bill provides that the scheduled fine for any moving 1 28 traffic violation shall be doubled if the violation occurs 1 29 within any school district, as defined in Code section 321.1. 1 30 Code section 321.1 defines a school district as the territory 1 31 contiguous to and including a highway for a distance of 200 1 32 feet in either direction from a schoolhouse in a city. The 1 33 bill requires that the signs marking the limits of a school 1 34 district inform motorists of such doubling of fines. 1 35 The bill also moves a provision relating to the posting of 2 1 the school district signs from one place in Code section 2 2 321.285 to another place in that Code section relating to the 2 3 speed limit in school districts. The governmental entity 2 4 having jurisdiction over the road is responsible for posting 2 5 the signs. 2 6 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 2 7 section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 2 8 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political 2 9 subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for 2 10 the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. 2 11 Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with 2 12 any state mandate included in the bill. 2 13 LSB 2278HH 79 2 14 nh/pj/5
Text: HF00234 Text: HF00236 Text: HF00200 - HF00299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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