House Study Bill 559 



                                       SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF
                                            TRANSPORTATION BILL)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing increased penalties for speeding violations
  2    committed by a motor vehicle operator in a road work zone.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.253, Code 2007, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    321.253  DEPARTMENT TO ERECT SIGNS.
  1  4    1.  The department shall place and maintain such
  1  5 traffic=control devices, conforming to its manual and
  1  6 specifications, upon all primary highways as it shall deem
  1  7 deems necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of
  1  8 this chapter or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.  Whenever
  1  9 practical, said the devices or signs shall be purchased from
  1 10 the director of the Iowa department of corrections.
  1 11    2.  The department shall post signs informing motorists of
  1 12 the penalties for speeding in a road work zone and that the
  1 13 scheduled fine for committing a any other moving traffic
  1 14 violation in a road work zone is doubled.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  Section 805.8A, subsection 14, paragraph i, Code
  1 16 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 17    i.  ROAD WORK ZONE VIOLATIONS.  The scheduled fine for any
  1 18 moving traffic violation under chapter 321, as provided in
  1 19 this section, shall be doubled if the violation occurs within
  1 20 any road work zone, as defined in section 321.1.  However,
  1 21 notwithstanding subsection 5, the scheduled fine for violating
  1 22 the speed limit in a road work zone is as follows:
  1 23    (1)  One hundred fifty dollars for speed not more than ten
  1 24 miles per hour over the posted speed limit.
  1 25    (2)  Three hundred dollars for speed greater than ten but
  1 26 not more than twenty miles per hour over the posted speed
  1 27 limit.
  1 28    (3)  Five hundred dollars for speed greater than twenty but
  1 29 not more than twenty=five miles per hour over the posted speed
  1 30 limit.
  1 31    (4)  One thousand dollars for speed greater than
  1 32 twenty=five miles per hour over the posted speed limit.
  1 33                           EXPLANATION
  1 34    This bill increases penalties for speeding violations
  1 35 committed by a motor vehicle operator in a road work zone.
  2  1 Pursuant to the bill, the scheduled fine for speeds up to and
  2  2 including 10 miles per hour over the limit is $150; for speeds
  2  3 from 11 through 20 miles per hour over the limit, $300; for
  2  4 speeds from 21 through 25 miles per hour over the limit, $500;
  2  5 and for speeds 26 miles per hour or more over the limit,
  2  6 $1,000.  Pursuant to current law, scheduled fines for moving
  2  7 traffic violations committed in a road work zone are doubled.
  2  8 Under the bill, doubled fines will continue to apply for
  2  9 moving violations other than speeding violations.  The bill
  2 10 requires the department of transportation to post signs
  2 11 informing motorists of the increased speeding fines.
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