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HOUSE BILL NO. 645, As Amended – Roads, secondary, speed limits

HOUSE BILL NO. 645, As Amended

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H0645aa.......................................by TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE
SECONDARY ROADS - SPEED LIMITS - Amends existing law to provide that local
authorities may decrease speed limits for secondary roads when it is in the
best interest of the public.
                                                                        
02/21    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/22    Rpt prt - to Transp
03/13    Rpt out - to Gen Ord
03/14    Rpt out amen - to engros
03/15    Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
03/16    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/20    3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 41-28-1
      AYES -- Barraclough, Bell, Bieter, Black, Boe, Callister, Chase,
      Cheirrett, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20),
      Geddes, Hansen(29), Henbest, Jaquet, Jones, Judd, Kempton, Linford,
      Mader, Marley, Montgomery, Moss, Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds, Ringo,
      Robison, Schaefer, Sellman, Shepherd, Smylie, Stoicheff, Stone,
      Tilman, Trail, Wood, Zimmermann
      NAYS -- Alltus, Barrett, Bruneel, Campbell, Clark, Denney, Gagner,
      Gould, Hadley, Hammond, Hansen(23), Hornbeck, Kellogg, Kendell, Kunz,
      Lake, Loertscher, McKague, Meyer, Mortensen, Moyle, Pearce, Sali,
      Smith, Stevenson, Taylor, Wheeler, Mr Speaker
      Absent and excused -- Ridinger
    Floor Sponsor - Ringo
    Title apvd - to Senate
03/21    Senate intro - 1st rdg as amen - to Transp

Bill Text


 H0645
                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-fifth Legislature                  Second Regular Session - 2000
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                               HOUSE BILL NO. 645, As Amended
                                                                        
                          BY TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO SPEED LIMITS; AMENDING SECTION 49-207, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT
  3        LOCAL AUTHORITIES MAY DECREASE SPEED LIMITS FOR SECONDARY ROADS WHEN IT IS
  4        IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC.
                                                                        
  5    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  6        SECTION 1.  That Section 49-207, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        49-207.  MUNICIPAL  REGISTRATION  PROHIBITED  -- POWER TO ENACT REGULATORY
  9    ORDINANCES NOT ABOLISHED. (1) Authorities of counties and cities shall have no
 10    power to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance requiring from any owner of a
 11    vehicle or any dealer to which  this  title  shall  be  applicable,  any  tax,
 12    license or permit for the free use of the public highways of a county or city,
 13    or  prohibiting  or  excluding  any  owner or dealer from the free use of such
 14    highways or excluding or prohibiting any vehicle registered in compliance with
 15    the provisions of this title from the free use of the highways.  Powers  given
 16    by general statutes to local authorities in cities to enact general ordinances
 17    applicable  equally  and  generally to all vehicles and the use of highways to
 18    bring about the orderly passage of vehicles upon certain highways in such cit-
 19    ies where the traffic is heavy and continuous, and powers given to  cities  to
 20    regulate  vehicles offered to the public for hire, or processions, assemblages
 21    or parades on the highways or in public places shall remain in full force  and
 22    effect, and all ordinances which may have been or which may be enacted in pur-
 23    suance of those powers shall remain in full force and effect. These provisions
 24    of  law  shall  not be construed to prevent cities from enacting and enforcing
 25    general ordinances prescribing additional requirements as to speed, manner  of
 26    driving, or operating vehicles on any of the highways of such cities, and pre-
 27    scribing  other  requirements  pertaining to signals to be given by drivers or
 28    operators of motor vehicles, the carrying of lights  on  motor  vehicles,  the
 29    turning  of motor vehicles on highways, and requirements for motor vehicles in
 30    passing other vehicles and pedestrians.
 31        (2)  Whenever local authorities in their respective jurisdictions, includ-
 32    ing the duly elected officials of an incorporated city acting in the  capacity
 33    of  a  local  authority,  determine  on the basis of an engineering or traffic
 34    investigation for highways on the board-approved state highway system,  or  on
 35    the  basis  of  when  it  is  in the best interest of the public for secondary
 36    roads, and the residential, urban or business character  of  the  neighborhood
 37    abutting  the  highway  in  a residential, business or urban district that the
 38    speed limit permitted under this title is greater than is reasonable and  safe
 39    under  the   conditions  found to exist upon a highway or part of a highway or
 40    because of the residential, urban or business character  of  the  neighborhood
 41    abutting  the  highway in a residential, business or urban district, the local
 42    authority may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit which:
 43        (a)  Decreases the limit within a residential, business or urban district;
                                                                        
                                           2
                                                                        
  1        or
  2        (b)  Decreases the limit outside an urban district.
  3        (3)  Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions  shall  determine
  4    by an engineering or traffic investigation for arterial highways on the board-
  5    approved  state  highway  system,  or  on  the basis of when it is in the best
  6    interest of the public for secondary roads,  the  proper  maximum  speed   not
  7    exceeding  a  maximum limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour for all arterial
  8    highways and shall declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit  which  may  be
  9    greater  or  less  than the limit permitted under this title for an urban dis-
 10    trict.
 11        (4)  Any decreased speed limit established shall be effective at all times
 12    or during hours of darkness or at other times as may be determined when appro-
 13    priate signs giving notice are erected upon the highway according to  require-
 14    ments of the department.
 15        (5)  Upon  the  decision of  the duly elected officials of an incorporated
 16    city to decrease the speed limit on highways within the city,  excluding  con-
 17    trolled  access  and  interstate highways, the city will notify in writing the
 18    local district office of the department prior to implementing  the  change  in
 19    speed  limits. The department shall have thirty (30) days from the day written
 20    notice is received to assist implementation, such  as  providing  transitional
 21    speed limit signs and taking other steps necessary to preserve public safety.

Amendment


 AH0645
                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-fifth Legislature                  Second Regular Session - 2000
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                     Moved by    Ringo               
                                                                        
                                                     Seconded by Kellogg             
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                              HOUSE AMENDMENT TO H.B. NO. 645
                                                                        
  1                               AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 1
  2        On page 1 of the printed bill, in line 35, delete "local highways"     and
  3    insert: "secondary roads".
  4        On  page  2, in line 6, delete "local arterial highways" and insert: "sec-
  5    ondary roads".
                                                                        
  6                                 CORRECTION TO TITLE
  7        On page 1, in line 3, delete "LOCAL HIGHWAYS AND LOCAL"  and  in  line  4,
  8    delete "ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS" and insert: "SECONDARY ROADS".

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


     
                           
                STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 
                      RS 10117 
     
     The purpose of this legislation is to give local authorities the ability, without an
     engineering or traffic investigation, to set speed limits on roads that are not part of
     the state highway system.
     
      
                    FISCAL IMPACT 
     
     There is no fiscal impact 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     Contact 
     Name: Rep. Tom Trail 
          Rep. Shirley Ringo
     Phone: 208/332-1000 
     
     
                                                  STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                                   H 645