8-1561. Minimum speed regulation.
8-1561
8-1561. Minimum speed regulation.
(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to
impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced
speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.
(b) Whenever the secretary of transportation or local authorities within
their respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation that slow speeds on any highway or part of a highway
impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the secretary or any
such local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below
which no person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe
operation or in compliance with law and that limit shall be effective when
posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1561; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 26; Aug. 15.