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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsections 4 through 6, Code 1 2 2003, are amended to read as follows: 1 3 4. Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed 1 4 limit for all vehicular trafficshall be fifty-fiveis sixty 1 5 miles per hour. 1 6 5. Reasonable and proper, but not greater than fifty-five 1 7 miles per hour at any time between sunrise and sunset, and not 1 8 greater than fifty miles per hour at any time between sunset 1 9 and sunrise, on secondary roadsunless. However, if such 1 10 roads are surfaced with concrete or asphalt or a combination 1 11 of both,in which casethe speedlimits shall be the same as1 12provided in subsection 4 of this sectionlimit is fifty-five 1 13 miles per hour at all times of day. When the board of 1 14 supervisors of any county shall determine upon the basis of an 1 15 engineering and traffic investigation that the speed limit on 1 16 any secondary road is greater than is reasonable and proper 1 17 under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or 1 18 other place or upon any part of a secondary road, the board 1 19 shall determine and declare a reasonable and proper speed 1 20 limit at the intersection or other part of the secondary road. 1 21 The speed limits as determined by the board of supervisors 1 22 shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the 1 23 speed limits are erected by the board of supervisors at the 1 24 intersection or other place or part of the highway. 1 25 6. a. Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the 1 26 speed limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled- 1 27 access, divided, multilaned highways including the national 1 28 system of interstate highways issixty-fiveseventy miles per 1 29 hour. The department may establish a speed limit ofsixty-1 30fiveseventy miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned 1 31 highways. However, the department, orcitiesa city with the 1 32 approval of the department, may establish a lower speed limit 1 33uponon such highways located within the corporate limits of a 1 34 city. For the purposes of this subsection, a fully 1 35 controlled-access highway is a highway that gives preference 2 1 to through traffic by providing access connections with 2 2 selected public roads only and by prohibiting crossings at 2 3 grade or direct private driveway connections. 2 4 b. A minimum speed may be established by the department on 2 5 the highways referred to in this subsection if warranted by 2 6 engineering and traffic investigations. 2 7 c.It is further provided that anyAny kind of vehicle, 2 8 implement, or conveyance incapable of attaining and 2 9 maintaining a speed of forty miles per hour shall be 2 10 prohibited from using the interstate road system. 2 11 EXPLANATION 2 12 This bill increases the speed limit for all vehicles on 2 13 fully controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways, 2 14 including interstates, from 65 to 70 miles per hour. The 2 15 state department of transportation may establish a 70-mile- 2 16 per-hour speed limit on other divided, multilaned highways. 2 17 The department and cities retain the authority to lower the 2 18 speed limit within the corporate limits of a city. 2 19 The bill also increases the speed limit on primary highways 2 20 from 55 to 60 miles per hour. Current scheduled fines for 2 21 speeding violations under Code section 805.8A are applicable 2 22 to violations of the new speed limits. 2 23 LSB 5736XS 80 2 24 dea/gg/14
Text: SF02032 Text: SF02034 Text: SF02000 - SF02099 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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