2015 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 169
BY SENATOR JOHN SMITH
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works
and the Department of Transportation and Development to study establishing a speed
limit of sixty-five miles per hour on certain portions of Louisiana Highway 12 and
Louisiana Highway 27.
WHEREAS, the speed limit on Louisiana Highway 12 between the city of DeQuincy
and the town of Vinton and on Louisiana Highway 27 between the city of DeRidder and the
city of DeQuincy and between the city of DeQuincy and the city of Sulphur is less than
sixty-five miles per hour; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 32:61 provides for a maximum fifty-five miles per hour speed limit
on any highway in this state, unless a lower speed limit is posted on the highway, except that
the maximum speed limit on interstate and controlled access highways shall not exceed
seventy miles per hour, that the maximum speed limit on multi-lane divided highways shall
not exceed sixty-five miles per hour, and that the department may establish speed limits in
excess of statutory maximum speed limits as provided in R.S. 32:63(C); and
WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation and Development may determine and
declare a speed limit in excess of any maximum speed limit established by law whenever the
department determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that such
speed is reasonable and safe.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways, and
Public Works and the Department of Transportation and Development to study establishing
a speed limit of sixty-five miles per hour on certain portions of Louisiana Highway 12 and
Louisiana Highway 27.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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