Bill Text: IN HB1410 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Speed limit for larger motor vehicles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-22 - First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation [HB1410 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-HB1410-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1410

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 9-21-5-2.

Synopsis: Speed limit for larger motor vehicles. Provides that the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) 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 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority; is 70 miles per hour. (Current law provides that the speed limit for those vehicles is 65 miles per hour.)

Effective: July 1, 2013.

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Washburne

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    January 22, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1410

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 9-21-5-2; (13)IN1410.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 9-21-5-2, AS AMENDED BY P.L.1-2006, SECTION 163, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 2. Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with section 1 of this chapter, the slower speed limit specified in this section or established as authorized by section 3 of this chapter is the maximum lawful speed. A person may not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of the following maximum limits:
        (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), and (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) (4) 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) (5) Seventy (70) miles per hour 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) (6) Sixty (60) 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) (7) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.