PRINTER'S NO. 169
No. 169 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY HOLL, JANUARY 23, 1989
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 23, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, relating to the reduction of certain speed limits.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 3363 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 3363. Alteration of maximum limits.
8 The department or local authorities on highways under their
9 respective jurisdictions, upon the basis of an engineering and
10 traffic investigation, may determine that the maximum speed
11 permitted under this subchapter is greater or less than is
12 reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon any
13 such highway or part thereof and establish a reasonable and safe
14 maximum limit. The maximum speed limit may be made effective at
15 all times or at times indicated and may vary for different
16 weather conditions and other factors bearing on safe speeds. No
17 maximum speed greater than 55 miles per hour shall be
1 established under this section. The department shall reduce the
2 speed limit on State highways located in municipalities, other
3 than limited access highways, when a reduction is requested by
4 the local authorities by means of an ordinance or resolution
5 duly adopted by the governing body of the local authority. The
6 request shall be accompanied by an engineering study that finds
7 that the existing speed limit is excessive.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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