Bill Text - HB234 (2017)

Relative to alteration of speed limits.


Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 11:39 a.m.

HB 234 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0384

03/06

 

HOUSE BILL 234

 

AN ACT relative to alteration of speed limits.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Barnes, Rock. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes a governing body to reduce the speed limit on a class V highway.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0384

03/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to alteration of speed limits.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Alteration of Speed Limits.  Amend RSA 265:63 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  A governing body may establish a speed limit on a class V highway within the city or town that is lower than the prima facie limit established in RSA 265:60, provided that the limit established under this paragraph shall not be less than 25 miles per hour.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.