Senate File 5 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  KETTERING


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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act increasing the speed limit on primary highways.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 1172XS 82
  4 dea/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsections 4 and 5, Code
  1  2 2007, are amended to read as follows:
  1  3    4.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions Except as
  1  4 otherwise provided by law, the speed limit for all vehicular
  1  5 traffic shall be fifty=five is sixty 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 determines upon the
  1 15 basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the
  1 16 speed limit on any secondary road is greater than is
  1 17 reasonable and proper under the conditions found to exist at
  1 18 any intersection or other place or upon any part of a
  1 19 secondary road, the board shall determine and declare a
  1 20 reasonable and proper speed limit at the intersection or other
  1 21 part of the secondary road.  The speed limits as determined by
  1 22 the board of supervisors shall be effective when appropriate
  1 23 signs giving notice of the speed limits are erected by the
  1 24 board of supervisors at the intersection or other place or
  1 25 part of the highway.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill increases the speed limit from 55 to 60 miles per
  1 28 hour on primary highways other than certain divided,
  1 29 multilaned highways with a speed limit of 65 miles per hour
  1 30 and interstates, which have a speed limit of 70 miles per
  1 31 hour.  The state department of transportation retains the
  1 32 authority to lower the speed limit on any part of the primary
  1 33 road system.  Current scheduled fines for speeding violations
  1 34 in speed zones greater than 55 miles per hour under Code
  1 35 section 805.8A are applicable to violations of the new speed
  2  1 limit.
  2  2 LSB 1172XS 82
  2  3 dea:nh/gg/14