Eighty mile per hour-variable speed limit.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0513
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0170

Eighty mile per hour-variable speed limit.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Baker

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to speed limits; requiring variable speed limits as specified; requiring variable electronic speed limit signs on interstate highways 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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5
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302

is
amended to read:

31
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5
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302
.

Establishment of specific maximum speed limits by superintendent.

(a)

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 safe
and reasonable 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
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5
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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 and which shall not exceed eighty (80) miles per hour on interstate highways.
Except as
otherwise
provided in
subsection (b)
of this section
, t
he 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.

(b
)

When
ever
the superintendent
designates
a maximum speed limit of eighty (80) miles pe
r hour on an interstate highway
,
the maximum speed limit shall be indicated upon
variable
electronic signs and different limits shall be established
as determined
necessary
by the superintendent
for
differ
ent
tim
es
of day,
different
type
s
of vehicles, varying weather conditions and other
factors bearing on safe speeds
, which shall be effective when posted upon electronic variable signs
.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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