Bill Text: MS HB850 | 2016 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Motor vehicle; require to travel at a safe and appropriate rate of speed when approaching certain features on the roadway.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2016-03-22 - Died In Committee [HB850 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2016-HB850-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Touchstone
House Bill 850
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-505, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT EVERY PERSON SHALL DRIVE AT A SAFE AND APPROPRIATE SPEED WHEN APPROACHING CERTAIN FEATURES ON THE ROADWAY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 63-3-505, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
63-3-505. No person
shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under
the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then
existing. * * *
Consistent with the foregoing, every driver or operator of any motor
vehicle * * * shall drive at a safe and appropriate speed when
approaching and crossing an intersection, when approaching and going around a
curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding
roadway, or when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other
traffic. All trucks, or truck-trailer combinations and passenger buses shall
be required to reduce speed to forty-five (45) miles per hour during inclement
weather when visibility is bad.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.
