Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 1119 - Speed limits for certain highways; change maximum

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1. Ladd  59th


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Rules Suspended to Introduce                                                                        
                                                                                                    
Code Sections amended: 40-6-181                                                                     


HB 1119                                            LC 25 0178






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 40-6-181 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to maximum speed limits, so as
  1- 3  to change the maximum speed limits for certain highways; to
  1- 4  repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 5       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.
Speed limits for certain highways; change maximum 1119t
  1- 6  Code Section 40-6-181 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 7  Annotated, relating to maximum speed limits, is amended by
  1- 8  striking subsection (b) and inserting in its place a new
  1- 9  subsection (b) to read as follows:

  1-10    "(b) No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess
  1-11    of the following maximum limits:

  1-12      (1) Thirty miles per hour in any urban or residential
  1-13      district;

  1-14      (2) Sixty-five miles per hour on a highway on any
  1-15      divided highway not a part of the federal interstate
  1-16      system which is outside of an urbanized area of 50,000
  1-17      population or more, provided that such speed limit is
  1-18      designated by appropriate signs; and

  1-19      (3) Seventy-five miles per hour on any highway on the
  1-20      federal interstate system except as otherwise provided
  1-21      by paragraphs (4) and (5) of this subsection;

  1-22      (4) Sixty-five miles per hour on I-285 and on any
  1-23      highway on the federal interstate system inside the
  1-24      periphery of I-285;

  1-25      (5) Eighty miles per hour on I-16 between its
  1-26      interchange with U.S. Highway 23 in Bibb County and its
  1-27      interchange with I-95 in Chatham County; and

  1-28      (3)(6) Fifty-five miles per hour in other locations."





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                                                  LC 25 0178

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 1  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 2  repealed.













































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