Commercial vehicle conditional speed limit.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0420

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0212

Commercial vehicle conditional speed limit.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Bucholz, Hinckley, Reese and Watt

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing a maximum speed limit for commercial vehicles as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 31
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301(b)(iii)(intro) and by creating a new paragraph (vi) and 31
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704 are amended to read:

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301.

Maximum speed limits.

(b)

Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with subsection (a) of this section, the limits specified in this subsection or established as otherwise authorized shall be maximum lawful speeds and no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of maximum limits:

(iii)

Seventy-five (75) miles per hour on interstate highways
, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (vi) of this subsection
. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to:

(vi)

For commercial vehicles as defined in W.S. 31
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101(a)(iii), the maximum speed limit on interstate highways shall be sixty-five (65) miles per hour when there is evidence of moisture on the roadway.

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704.

Violation of speed limits; penalties.

In addition to any other penalty, every person convicted of violating W.S. 31
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301(b)(iii) by exceeding a speed of eighty (80) miles per hour,
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W.S. 31
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301(b)(iv) by exceeding a speed of seventy (70) miles per hour
or W.S. 31
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301(b)(vi) by exceeding a speed of seventy (70) miles per hour
, while operating a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating exceeding twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100.00).

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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