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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 478
H.P. 307 House of Representatives, February 11, 2025
An Act to Reduce Maximum Speeds on Roads Close to Residences
Received by the Clerk of the House on February 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Transportation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative HENDERSON of Rumford.
Page 1 - 132LR1173(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2074, sub-§1, ¶D, as amended by PL 2005, c. 577, §30, is
3 further amended to read:
4 D. Forty-five miles per hour on all other public ways unless otherwise posted; and ,
5 except that on a public way where at least one residence is within 15 feet of the public
6 way, the following maximum rates of speed apply:
7 (1) Twenty-five miles per hour for a snowplow and equipment used by the
8 department exclusively for the removal of snow on the public way;
9 (2) Twenty-five miles per hour for a vehicle with at least 5 axles; and
10 (3) Thirty-five miles per hour for all other vehicles; and
11SUMMARY
12 Except when conditions or other regulations require a lower speed, this bill sets the
13 maximum rates of speed for a public way where at least one residence is within 15 feet of
14 the public way as follows:
15 1. Twenty-five miles per hour for a snowplow and equipment used by the Department
16 of Transportation exclusively for the removal of snow on the public way;
17 2. Twenty-five miles per hour for a vehicle with at least 5 axles; and
18 3. Thirty-five miles per hour for all other vehicles.
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