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Senate File 27

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsection 6, Code 2001, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    6.  a.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the
  1  4 speed limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled-
  1  5 access, divided, multilaned highways including the national
  1  6 system of interstate highways is sixty-five seventy miles per
  1  7 hour.
  1  8    b.  The department may establish a speed limit of sixty-
  1  9 five miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned highways.
  1 10 However, the department or cities with the approval of the
  1 11 department may establish a lower speed limit upon such
  1 12 highways located within the corporate limits of a city.
  1 13    c.  For the purposes of this subsection, a fully
  1 14 controlled-access highway is a highway that gives preference
  1 15 to through traffic by providing access connections with
  1 16 selected public roads only and by prohibiting crossings at
  1 17 grade or direct private driveway connections.
  1 18    d.  A minimum speed may be established by the department on
  1 19 the highways referred to in this subsection if warranted by
  1 20 engineering and traffic investigations.
  1 21    e.  It is further provided that any kind of vehicle,
  1 22 implement, or conveyance incapable of attaining and
  1 23 maintaining a speed of forty miles per hour shall be
  1 24 prohibited from using the interstate system.  
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill increases the speed limit for interstate and
  1 27 other fully controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways
  1 28 from 65 to 70 miles per hour for all vehicles.  
  1 29 LSB 1712SS 79
  1 30 nh/cls/14
     

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