Highway speed limits-2.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0614

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0239

Highway speed limits-2.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Brown and Senator(s) Coe

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to highways; limiting the authority of the director of the department of transportation to establish lower maximum speed limits as specified;

and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 31
‑
5
‑
302 is amended to read:

31
‑
5
‑
302.

Establishment of specific maximum speed limits by superintendent.

Whenever the superintendent determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, or in the event of a vehicle or weather emergency, that a maximum speed greater or less than that authorized herein is required for safe and reasonable vehicle operation under the conditions found
to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of the state highway system, the superintendent, except as provided for in W.S. 31
‑
5
‑
303(
b), may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereat, which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. The maximum speed limit may be declared to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon the signs and differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of vehicles, varying weather conditions, and other factors bearing on safe speeds, which shall be effective when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. This section does not grant power to the superintendent to declare statewide or countywide maximum speed limits but grants power to declare maximum speed limits for the public safety in localized geographic areas.
The superintendent shall not enter into any agreement to establish or maintain a speed limit less than that established by W.S. 31
‑
5
‑
301(
b)(iv), in order to comply with any provision of the
National Environmental Policy Act
without approval of the legislature.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

1
HB0239