Senate File 2033
SENATE FILE
BY KETTERING
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act increasing speed limits on certain multilaned, divided
2 highways and primary highways.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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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 traffic shall be fifty=five is 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 roads unless. However, if such
1 10 roads are surfaced with concrete or asphalt or a combination
1 11 of both, in which case the speed limits shall be the same as
1 12 provided in subsection 4 of this section limit 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 is sixty=five seventy miles per
1 29 hour. The department may establish a speed limit of sixty=
1 30 five seventy miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned
1 31 highways. However, the department, or cities a city with the
1 32 approval of the department, may establish a lower speed limit
1 33 upon on 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 any Any 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.
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