PRINTER'S NO. 387
No. 370 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CORRIGAN, COY, LAUGHLIN AND SHANER,
JANUARY 31, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 31, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for alteration of maximum speed
3 limits.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3363 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3363. Alteration of maximum limits.
9 (a) General rule.--On highways under their respective
10 jurisdictions,local authorities, subject to section 6109(e)
11 (relating to specific powers of department and local
12 authorities), or the department, upon the basis of an
13 engineering and traffic investigation, may determine that the
14 maximum speed permitted under this subchapter is greater or less
15 than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist
16 upon any such highway or part thereof and establish a reasonable
17 and safe maximum limit. The maximum speed limit may be made
18 effective at all times or at times indicated and may vary for
1 different weather conditions and other factors bearing on safe
2 speeds.
3 (b) Limitation.--No maximum speed greater than 55 miles per
4 hour shall be established under this section except on highways
5 listed in section 3362(a)(1.1) (relating to maximum speed
6 limits), where the maximum speed for all vehicles shall not be
7 greater than 65 miles per hour.
8 (c) Certain boroughs.--For the purposes of this section,
9 State-designated highways in a borough having a population of no
10 more than 12,000 shall be under the jurisdiction of the borough.
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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