Speeding penalties in 80 mile per hour zone.

ORIGINAL

House
Bill No.
HB0181

ENROLLED ACT NO. 72,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2015 General Session

AN ACT relating to speed limits; amending penalties for violations of speed limits 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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301(b)(iii)
(intro)
and by creating a new paragraph (vi),
31
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5
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1201(d)
(i)
,
(iii), (v) and
(g) and 31
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18
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704 are amended to read:

31
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5
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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, subject
to W.S. 31
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5
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203(b), 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)

Except as provided
under
paragraph (v
i
) o
f
this
sub
section, s
eventy
‑
five (75) miles per hour on interstate highways. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to:

(vi)

Notwithstanding paragraph (iii) of this subsection, eighty (80) miles per hour on interstate highways designated by the superintendent.

31
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5
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1201
.

Violation of provisions to constitute misdemeanor; penalties.

(d)

Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section:

(i)

Every person convicted of a violation of
W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(vi), for speeds of eighty
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one (81) through eighty
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five (85) miles per hour,

W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii), for speeds of seventy
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six (76) through eighty (80) miles per hour, or W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iv), for speeds of sixty
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six (66) through seventy (70) miles per hour, shall be fined five dollars ($5.00) for each mile per hour in excess of the legal speed limit not to exceed twenty
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five dollars ($25.00);

(iii)

Every person convicted of a violation of
W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(vi), for speeds above eighty
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five (85
)
miles per hour, or

W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii), for speeds above eighty (80) miles per hour, shall be fined at the discretion of the judge but not less than thirty
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five dollars ($35.00) nor more than the maximum penalties provided by subsection (b) of this section, with assessed court costs which shall also apply to a violation of
W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(vi) for speed
s

above
eighty
‑
five (85) miles per hour or

W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii) for
a speed

of
speeds above

eighty (80) miles per hour;

(v)

Notwithstanding W.S.
5
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4
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207 and
5
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9
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107, court costs for violations of W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii)
,

or
(iv)

or (vi)
shall not be assessed for speeds up to four (4) miles per hour over the speed limits authorized by W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii)
,

or
(iv)

or (vi)
.

(g)

In addition to any other penalty, every person convicted of violating W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii), (iv)
, (vi)
or (c) or 31
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302 by exceeding the posted speed limit by six (6) or more miles per hour, while operating a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating exceeding twenty
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six thousand (26,000) pounds shall be fined three hundred dollars ($300.00).

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18
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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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5
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301(b)(vi) by exceeding a speed of eighty
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five (85) miles per hour
,

W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iii) by exceeding a speed of eighty (80) miles per hour, or W.S. 31
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5
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301(b)(iv) 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
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six thousand (26,000) pounds shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100.00).

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE
APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the
House
.

Chief Clerk

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