Amendment H-1015 to HF 178

Filed February 18, 2025 in the House by

What it changes

1. Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: “Section
2. Section 321.285, subsections 3 and 4, Code 2025, are amended to read as follows:
3. Unless otherwise provided in this section or by other speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic shall be fifty-five sixty miles per hour.
4. A reasonable and proper speed is required, but not greater than fifty-five sixty miles per hour at any time between sunrise and sunset, and not greater than fifty miles per hour at any time between sunset and sunrise, on secondary roads unless such roads are surfaced with concrete or asphalt or a combination of both, in which case the speed limits shall be the same as provided in subsection 3 . When the board of supervisors of any county shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed limit on any secondary road is greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a secondary road, the board shall determine and declare a reasonable and proper speed limit at the intersection or other part of the secondary road. The speed limits as determined by the board of supervisors shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limits are erected by the board of supervisors at the intersection or other place or part of the highway. Sec. ___. Section 321.285, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: a. Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways is sixty-five seventy miles per hour. However, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on highways that are part of the interstate road system , as defined in section 306.3 , is seventy seventy-five miles per hour. The department may establish a speed limit of sixty-five seventy miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned highways not otherwise described in this paragraph. Sec. ___. Section 321.293, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 321.293 Local authorities may alter limits. Local authorities in their respective jurisdiction may in their discretion subject to the approval of the department authorize by ordinance higher speeds than those stated in section 321.285 upon through highways or upon highways or portions thereof where stop or yield signs have been erected at the entrances thereto provided signs are erected giving notice of the authorized speed, but local authorities shall not have authority to authorize by ordinance a speed in excess of fifty-five sixty miles per hour. If local authorities fail to authorize by ordinance higher speeds than those stated in section 321.285 upon through highways or upon highways or portions thereof where stop signs have been erected at the entrances thereto, the department may recommend, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to the local authorities that the speed limit be increased. If local authorities fail to increase the speed limit upon said recommendation of the department, said department shall declare a reasonable and safe speed limit which shall be effective when appropriate signs are erected giving notice thereof.”
5. Title page, lines 1 and 2, by striking “the penalty for speeding in excess of twenty miles per hour over the limit” and inserting “speed limits, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable”
6. By renumbering as necessary.

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