By: Garcia S.B. No. 2103
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima
facie speed limits.
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-3), the governing
body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in the
municipality that is not an officially designated or marked highway
or road of the state highway system, may declare a lower speed limit
of not less than 20 [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, 2017.