NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 79

HOUSE BILL 141

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-141 INCREASING MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS ON INTERSTATE AND CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS TO 70 MILES PER HOUR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-141(b)(5) is amended by deleting in line 11 thereof the figure "65" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "70" so that the section after amendment will read as follows:

"(5)      Whenever the State Highway Commission shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that a higher maximum speed than those set forth in subdivisions (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this subsection is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon any part of a highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality, or upon any part of a highway designated as a part of the interstate highway system or other controlled-access-facility highway either inside or outside the corporate limits of a municipality, with respect to the vehicles described in said subdivisions (3) and (4), said Commission shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit, not to exceed a maximum of 70 miles per hour, with respect to said part of any such highway, which maximum speed limit with respect to subdivisions (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this subsection shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the parts of the highway affected."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-141(b1)(3) is repealed.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-141(b1)(2) is rewritten to read as follows:

"(2)      Forty-five (45) miles per hour in any speed zone of sixty (60) miles per hour or greater."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of March, 1971.