Bill Text: NC S709 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

North Carolina Senate Bill 709 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: DOT Study 75 mph Speed/Develop Pilot Proposal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-06-27 - Failed 2nd Reading [S709 Detail]

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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SENATE BILL 709

Short Title: Allow DOT to set Max. Speed of 75 MPH.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Hunt, Rabon, Harrington (Primary Sponsors); Cook, Jackson, Meredith, Rabin, and Soucek.
Referred to:	Transportation.

April 4, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow the Department of Transportation to increase the speed limit on certain interstate highways to a maximum of seventy‑five miles per hour.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑141(d)(2) reads as rewritten:

"(d) (1) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed allowed by subsection (b) is greater than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon any part of a highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality or upon any part of a highway designated as part of the Interstate Highway System or any part of a controlled‑access highway (either inside or outside the corporate limits of a municipality), the Department of Transportation shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit.

(2) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that a higher maximum speed than those set forth in subsection (b) is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon any part of a highway designated as part of the Interstate Highway System or any part of a controlled‑access highway (either inside or outside the corporate limits of a municipality) the Department of Transportation shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit. A speed limit set pursuant to this subsection may not exceed 7075 miles per hour.

Speed limits set pursuant to this subsection are not effective until appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the parts of the highway affected."

SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.