South Carolina General Assembly
113th Session, 1999-2000

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Bill 4764


Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter


                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4764
Type of Legislation:              General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  20000313
Primary Sponsor:                  Martin
All Sponsors:                     Martin and Hamilton
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\ggs\22415cm00.doc
Residing Body:                    House
Current Committee:                Education and Public Works Committee 21 
                                  HEPW
Subject:                          Trucks, not to operate at speed in excess 
                                  of five miles below maximum speed for motor 
                                  vehicles; Highways and Streets


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
House   20000313  Introduced, read first time,           21 HEPW
                  referred to Committee


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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1520, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A TRUCK TRAVELING ON AN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY MUST NOT BE OPERATED AT A SPEED IN EXCESS OF FIVE MILES BELOW THE MAXIMUM POSTED SPEED FOR AN AUTOMOBILE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 56-5-1520(B) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 17 of 1999, is further amended to read:

"(B) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with subsection (A), the limits specified in this section or established as hereinafter authorized are maximum lawful speeds, and a person shall not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of these maximum limits:

(1) seventy miles an hour on the interstate highway system and other freeways where official signs giving notice of this speed are posted;

(2) sixty miles an hour on multilane divided primary highways where official signs giving notice of this speed limit are posted;

(3) fifty-five miles an hour in other locations or on other sections of highways and unpaved roads are limited to the speed of forty miles an hour; and

(4) manufactured, modular, or mobile homes must not be transported at a speed in excess of ten miles below the maximum posted speed limit when the maximum posted speed limit is in excess of forty-five miles an hour, and never in excess of fifty-five miles an hour; and

(5) trucks traveling on an interstate highway may not be operated at a speed in excess of five miles below the maximum posted speed for an automobile."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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