71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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LC 1845
 
                         House Bill 2305
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Joint Interim
  Transportation Committee for Mark Koberstein)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Removes state highway exemption from offense of violating a
maximum speed limit in an urban area.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to speed limit on state highway in urban area; amending
  ORS 811.123.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 811.123 is amended to read:
  811.123. (1) A person commits the offense of violating a
maximum speed limit in an urban area if the person drives a
vehicle upon a highway in any city or upon a highway within an
urban growth boundary that is in a county with a population
greater than 100,000 at a speed greater than any speed posted by
authority granted under ORS 810.180 or, if no speed is posted,
the following:
  (a) Fifteen miles per hour when driving on an alley.
  (b) Twenty miles per hour in a business district.
  (c) Twenty miles per hour when passing school grounds or a
school crosswalk if notice of the grounds or crosswalk is
indicated plainly by traffic control devices conforming to the
requirements established under ORS 810.200 and posted under
authority granted by ORS 810.210 and:
  (A) Children are present, as described in ORS 811.124; or
  (B) A flashing light used as a traffic control device and
operated under ORS 811.106 indicates that children may be
arriving at or leaving school.
  (d) Twenty-five miles per hour in any public park.
  (e) Twenty-five miles per hour on a highway in a residence
district if the highway is not an arterial highway.
  (f) Sixty-five miles per hour on any rural interstate highway.
  (g) Fifty-five miles per hour in locations not otherwise
described in this section.
  (2) This section does not authorize speeds higher than those
required for compliance with the basic speed rule.
    { - (3) This section does not apply on a state highway. - }
    { - (4) - }  { +  (3) + } The offense described in this
section, violating a maximum speed limit in an urban area, is
punishable as provided in ORS 811.109.
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