HB388: permitting the reduction of the speed limit within a business or urban residence district or within the compact part of cities or towns to 15 miles per hour.

HB 388 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 388

AN ACT permitting the reduction of the speed limit within a business or urban residence district or within the compact part of cities or towns to 15 miles per hour.

SPONSORS: Rep. P. Sullivan, Hills 50; Rep. C. Laflamme, Hills 50; Rep. Pepino, Hills 51

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill permits the reduction of the speed limit within a business or urban residence district or within the compact part of cities or towns to 15 miles per hour. Current law permits a reduction to 25 miles per hour.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT permitting the reduction of the speed limit within a business or urban residence district or within the compact part of cities or towns to 15 miles per hour.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Establishment of State Speed Zones; Reduction Within Compact Part. Amend RSA 265:62, IV to read as follows:

IV.(a) The commissioner of transportation, upon the petition of the governing body of a municipality, shall determine if any prima facie speed limit hereinbefore set forth should be reduced to provide reasonable and safe conditions upon any part of the state highway system within the compact part of cities or towns; provided, however, the resulting speed limit shall not be less than [25] 15 miles per hour.

(b) The petition shall designate the area of the state highway system and the reasons for the reduction in the speed limit. The review of the petition shall include an engineering and traffic investigation and consultation with the petitioners. The commissioner shall provide the petitioners, in writing, the results of his or her findings. The commissioner may recommend a decrease in the posted prima facie speed limit, but in no case shall the resulting speed limit be below [25] 15 miles per hour.

2 Alteration of Limits; Business or Urban Residence District. Amend RSA 265:63, I(d) to read as follows:

(d) Decreases the limit within any business or urban residence district but not to less than [25] 15 miles per hour.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.