SB 267 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
06/09
SENATE BILL 267
AN ACT relative to the establishment of school zones and school zone speed limits by municipalities.
SPONSORS: Sen. Houde, Dist 5; Rep. White, Graf 11; Rep. Harding, Graf 11; Rep. Almy, Graf 11
This bill permits local authorities to decrease the speed limit in an area near a school that has not been approved as a school zone by the department of transportation.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-3001
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the establishment of school zones and school zone speed limits by municipalities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subparagraph; Alteration of Limits; Schools. Amend RSA 265:63, I by inserting after subparagraph (d) the following new subparagraph:
(e) Decreases the limit to a speed of 10 miles per hour below the usual posted limit from 45 minutes prior to each school opening until each school opening and from each school closing until 45 minutes after each school closing in the vicinity of a school that failed, for lack of a pedestrian presence, to receive school zone approval from the department of transportation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.