WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 627
By Senators Karnes and Facemire
[Introduced
March 16, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-6-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the establishment of an eighty-mile per hour speed limit on interstate highways and four-lane limited access highways in this state; and providing an exception for those highways passing through city limits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17C-6-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. SPEED RESTRICTIONS.
§17C-6-2. Establishment of state speed zones.
Whenever the state road
commissioner Commissioner of Highways shall determines upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed limit set
forth in this article is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the
conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part
of a highway, said the commissioner may determine and declare a
reasonable and safe speed limit thereat which shall be effective at all times
or during hours of daylight or darkness or at such other times as may be
determined when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such
intersection or other place or part of the highway.
Effective July 1, 2017, the commissioner shall establish a speed limit of eighty miles per hour on interstate highways and four-lane limited access highways in this state: Provided, That this increased speed limit does not apply to interstate highways and four-lane limited access highways that pass through the city limits of municipalities.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish an eighty mile per hour speed limit on interstate highways and four-lane limited access highways in this state. The bill provides an exception for those highways passing through city limits.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.