Bill Text: VA HB1949 | 2013 | Regular Session | Prefiled


Bill Title: Reckless driving; speed limits on toll facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB1949 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-HB1949-Prefiled.html
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HOUSE BILL NO. 1949
Offered January 9, 2013
Prefiled January 9, 2013
A BILL to amend and reenact §§46.2-862 and 46.2-870 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reckless driving; speed limits on toll facilities.
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Patron-- Yancey
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That §§46.2-862 and 46.2-870 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

§46.2-862. Exceeding speed limit.

A person shall be guilty of reckless driving who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the Commonwealth (i) at a speed of twenty 20 miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limit or (ii) in excess of eighty miles per hour regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit.

§46.2-870. Maximum speed limits generally.

Except as otherwise provided in this article, the maximum speed limit shall be 55 miles per hour on interstate highways or other limited access highways with divided roadways, nonlimited access highways having four or more lanes, and all state primary highways.

The maximum speed limit on all other highways shall be 55 miles per hour if the vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle, bus, pickup or panel truck, or a motorcycle, but 45 miles per hour on such highways if the vehicle is a truck, tractor truck, or combination of vehicles designed to transport property, or is a motor vehicle being used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house trailer.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the maximum speed limit shall be 70 miles per hour where indicated by lawfully placed signs, erected subsequent to a traffic engineering study and analysis of available and appropriate accident and law-enforcement data, on: (i) interstate highways, (ii) multilane, divided, limited access highways, and (iii) high-occupancy vehicle lanes if such lanes are physically separated from regular travel lanes. The maximum speed limit shall be 60 miles per hour where indicated by lawfully placed signs, erected subsequent to a traffic engineering study and analysis of available and appropriate accident and law-enforcement data, on U.S. Route 29, U.S. Route 58, U.S. Route 360, U.S. Route 460, and on U.S. Route 17 between the town of Port Royal and Saluda where they are nonlimited access, multilane, divided highways. The maximum speed limit shall be 80 miles per hour where indicated by lawfully placed signs, erected subsequent to a traffic engineering study and analysis of available and appropriate accident and law-enforcement data, on any highway for the use of which a toll is imposed and collected, including HOT lanes established pursuant to Article 3.1 (§ 33.1-56.1 et seq.) of Chapter 1 of Title 33.1.

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