CHAPTER 51
HB 1247 – FINAL VERSION
03Mar2010… 0584h
2010 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 1247
AN ACT establishing a speed limit for vehicles traveling through toll collection areas.
SPONSORS: Rep. J. Flanders, Rock 8
This bill establishes speed limits for vehicles traveling through toll collection areas.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03Mar2010… 0584h
10-2147
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT establishing a speed limit for vehicles traveling through toll collection areas.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
51:1 New Section; Words and Phrases Defined; Open Road Tolling Lane. Amend RSA 259 by inserting after section 69 the following new section:
259:69-a Open Road Tolling Lane. “Open road tolling lane” shall mean any lane on a toll road so designated by a traffic control device or lane control system at which certain vehicles equipped with transponder devices for the payment of tolls are permitted to travel at highway speeds without reducing speed or stopping to pay a toll.
51:2 New Subparagraphs; Speed Limitations; Toll Collection Areas. Amend RSA 265:60, II by inserting after subparagraph (f) the following new subparagraphs:
(g) For a vehicle equipped with a transponder, 25 miles per hour through a toll booth or gate that is equipped with a transponder reader for automated toll collection except for an open road tolling lane and except that at toll booths staffed by toll collectors drivers whose vehicles are not equipped for automated tolling shall come to a full stop at the toll booth so that the attendant may collect the toll.
(h) In the toll collection area of an open road tolling lane, at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent for the conditions and actual and potential hazards existing at the time or greater than a per se maximum speed of 65 miles per hour, whichever is less.
51:3 Speed Limitations. Amend RSA 265:60, III to read as follows:
III. The [limit] limits specified in subparagraphs II(e) and II(g) shall be the maximum lawful speed and no person shall drive a vehicle on said ways at a speed in excess of such maximum limit. The prima facie speed limits set forth in this section may be altered as authorized in RSA 265:62.
51:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: May 18, 2010
Effective Date: May 18, 2010