Bill Text: IN HB1120 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Speed limits.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - Representatives Hamm, Wolkins and Bauer added as coauthors [HB1120 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1120-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 9-21-5-2.
Synopsis: Speed limits. Raises the maximum speed limit on certain
highways located outside urbanized areas to 65 miles per hour. (The
current speed limit on these highways is 60 miles per hour.)
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
motor vehicles.
(1) Thirty (30) miles per hour in an urban district.
(2) Fifty-five (55) miles per hour, except as provided in subdivisions (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7).
(3) Seventy (70) miles per hour on a highway on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside of an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000), except as provided in subdivision (4).
(4) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a vehicle (other than a bus)
having a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand
(26,000) pounds on a highway on the national system of interstate
and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as
defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty
thousand (50,000).
(5) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour on:
(A) U.S. 20 from the intersection of U.S. 20 and County Road
17 in Elkhart County to the intersection of U.S. 20 and U.S. 31
in St. Joseph County;
(B) U.S. 31 from the intersection of U.S. 31 and U.S. 20 in St.
Joseph County to the boundary line between Indiana and
Michigan; and
(C) a highway classified by the Indiana department of
transportation as an INDOT Freeway.
(6) On a highway that is the responsibility of the Indiana finance
authority established by IC 4-4-11:
(A) seventy (70) miles per hour for:
(i) a motor vehicle having a declared gross weight of not
more than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds; or
(ii) a bus; or
(B) sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a motor vehicle having
a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand
(26,000) pounds.
(7) Sixty (60) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour on a highway that:
(A) is not designated as a part of the national system of
interstate and defense highways;
(B) has four (4) or more lanes;
(C) is divided into two (2) or more roadways by:
(i) an intervening space that is unimproved and not intended
for vehicular travel;
(ii) a physical barrier; or
(iii) a dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
traffic; and
(D) is located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23
U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand
(50,000).
(8) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.