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IN SB0035
Bill
AI Summary
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Allows cities, towns, or counties to establish speed limits as low as 20 mph on streets and highways where schools are located, if the street or highway is under their jurisdiction.
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Reduces the minimum speed limit requirement outside urban districts from 30 mph to 20 mph for school zones (previously had different minimums for urban vs. non-urban areas).
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Requires speed zones to be properly signed with markers indicating where the reduced speed zone begins and ends.
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Allows speed limit signs to indicate whether a school operates on a twelve-month schedule (all-year school) by June 30, 2012.
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Effective July 1, 2015, and removes outdated language referencing June 30, 2011 compliance deadlines.
Legislative Description
Speed limits in school zones. Provides that a city, town, or county may establish a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a street or highway upon which a school is located if the street or highway is under the jurisdiction of the city, town, or county. (Current law provides that the speed limit may not be less than 30 miles per hour outside an urban district.) Removes outdated language.
Last Action
Public Law 29
4/17/2015