Citations Affected:
IC 9-21-5-2.
Synopsis: Speed limits. Raises the maximum speed limit to 70 miles
per hour for automobiles and 65 miles per hour for trucks on interstate
highways in Indiana. Raises the maximum speed limit for automobiles
to 60 miles per hour and 55 miles per hour for trucks on four lane,
rural, divided noninterstate highways in Indiana.
Effective: July 1, 2000.
January 10, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
motor vehicles.
thousand (26,000) pounds on a highway on the national system of
interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area
(as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty
thousand (50,000).
(5) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
(6) Sixty (60) miles per hour on a highway that:
(A) is not designated as a part of the national system of
interstate and defense highways;
(B) has four (4) or more lanes;
(C) is divided into two (2) or more roadways by:
(i) an intervening space that is unimproved and not
intended for vehicular travel;
(ii) a physical barrier; or
(iii) a dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
traffic; and
(D) is located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23
U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand
(50,000);
except as provided in subdivision (7).
(7) Fifty-five (55) miles per hour for a vehicle (other than a
bus) having a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six
thousand (26,000) pounds on a highway that:
(A) is not designated as a part of the national system of
interstate and defense highways;
(B) has four (4) or more lanes;
(C) is divided into two (2) or more roadways by:
(i) an intervening space that is unimproved and not
intended for vehicular travel;
(ii) a physical barrier; or
(iii) a dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
traffic; and
(D) is located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23
U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand
(50,000).