86R12748 JXC-D
By: Farrar H.B. No. 3901
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of counties and municipalities to lower
speed limits on certain highways.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 545.355(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The commissioners court of a county may declare a lower
speed limit of not less than:
(1) 30 miles per hour on a county road or highway to
which this section applies, if the commissioners court determines
that the prima facie speed limit on the road or highway is
unreasonable or unsafe; or
(2) 10 [20] miles per hour in a residence district,
unless the roadway has been designated as a major thoroughfare by a
municipal [city] planning commission.
SECTION 2. 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:
(1) 25 miles per hour for a two-lane, undivided
highway or part of a highway, if the governing body determines that
the prima facie speed limit on the highway is unreasonable or
unsafe; or
(2) 10 miles per hour in a residence district, unless
the roadway has been designated as a major thoroughfare by a
municipal planning commission.
SECTION 3. Section 545.356(b-2), Transportation Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.