Bill Text: MS HB246 | 2017 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Motor vehicle; require to travel at a safe and appropriate rate of speed when approaching certain features on the roadway.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2017-02-28 - Died In Committee [HB246 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB246-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Touchstone
House Bill 246
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-505, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT EVERY PERSON SHALL DRIVE AT A SAFE AND APPROPRIATE SPEED WHEN APPROACHING CERTAIN FEATURES ON THE ROADWAY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 63-3-505, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
63-3-505. * * *
No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and
prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential
hazards then existing. Consistent
with the foregoing, every driver or operator of any motor vehicle * * * shall drive at a safe
and appropriate speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, when
approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when
traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, or when special hazard exists
with respect to pedestrians or other traffic. All trucks, or truck-trailer
combinations and passenger buses shall be required to reduce speed to forty-five
(45) miles per hour during inclement weather when visibility is bad.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
