81R17806 TRH-D
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 2477
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a municipality to lower the speed limit
on certain highways in the municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 545.356(b-1), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the governing
body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in an
urban district in the municipality that is not an officially
designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system and
that [,] is 35 feet or less in width, [and along which vehicular
parking is not prohibited on one or both sides of the highway,] may
declare a lower speed limit of not less than 25 miles per hour, if
the governing body determines that the prima facie speed limit on
the highway is unreasonable or unsafe.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.