Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1308
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 9-21-5-2.
Synopsis: Speed limits. Increases the maximum speed limit, from 70
to 75 miles per hour, on: (1) a highway on the national system of
interstate and defense highways located outside of an urbanized area
with a population of at least 50,000; and (2) a highway that is the
responsibility of the Indiana finance authority; for a bus or other
vehicle that has a gross weight that does not exceed 26,000 pounds.
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Smaltz
January 10, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
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HOUSE BILL No. 1308
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:
1 SECTION 1. IC 9-21-5-2, AS AMENDED BY P.L.189-2018,
2 SECTION 104, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
3 [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024]: Sec. 2. (a) Except when a special hazard
4 exists that requires lower speed for compliance with section 1 of this
5 chapter, the slower speed limit specified in this section or established
6 as authorized by section 3 of this chapter is the maximum lawful speed.
7 A person may not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of
8 the following maximum limits:
9 (1) Thirty (30) miles per hour in an urban district.
10 (2) Fifty-five (55) miles per hour, except as provided in
11 subdivisions (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7).
12 (3) Seventy (70) Seventy-five (75) miles per hour on a highway
13 on the national system of interstate and defense highways located
14 outside of an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a
15 population of at least fifty thousand (50,000), except as provided
16 in subdivision (4).
17 (4) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a vehicle (other than a bus)
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1 having a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand
2 (26,000) pounds on a highway on the national system of interstate
3 and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as
4 defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty
5 thousand (50,000).
6 (5) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour on:
7 (A) U.S. 20 from the intersection of U.S. 20 and County Road
8 17 in Elkhart County to the intersection of U.S. 20 and U.S. 31
9 in St. Joseph County;
10 (B) U.S. 31 from the intersection of U.S. 31 and U.S. 20 in St.
11 Joseph County to the boundary line between Indiana and
12 Michigan; and
13 (C) a highway classified by the Indiana department of
14 transportation as an INDOT Freeway.
15 (6) On a highway that is the responsibility of the Indiana finance
16 authority established by IC 5-1.2-3:
17 (A) seventy (70) seventy-five (75) miles per hour for:
18 (i) a motor vehicle having a declared gross weight of not
19 more than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds; or
20 (ii) a bus; or
21 (B) sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a motor vehicle having
22 a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand
23 (26,000) pounds.
24 (7) Sixty (60) miles per hour on a highway that:
25 (A) is not designated as a part of the national system of
26 interstate and defense highways;
27 (B) has four (4) or more lanes;
28 (C) is divided into two (2) or more roadways by:
29 (i) an intervening space that is unimproved and not intended
30 for vehicular travel;
31 (ii) a physical barrier; or
32 (iii) a dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
33 traffic; and
34 (D) is located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23
35 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand
36 (50,000).
37 (8) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
38 (b) A person who violates subsection (a) commits a Class C
39 infraction.
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