8-1563. Special speed limitations applicable to certain vehicles and portions of highways; powers of secretary and local authorities; violations, evidence of safe speed.
8-1563
8-1563. Special speed limitations applicable to certain vehicles and
portions of highways; powers of secretary and local authorities;
violations, evidence of safe speed.
(a) No person shall drive a vehicle which is towing a house trailer at a
speed greater than a maximum of fifty-five (55) miles per hour.
(b) No person shall drive any vehicle equipped with solid rubber tires
at a speed greater than a maximum of ten (10) miles per hour.
(c) No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated
structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than
the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or
structure, when such structure is signposted as provided in this section.
(d) The secretary of transportation and local authorities on highways
under their respective jurisdictions may conduct an investigation of any
bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway, and if
it shall thereupon find that such structure cannot with safety to itself
withstand vehicles traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this
article, the secretary or local authority shall determine and declare the
maximum speed of vehicles which such structure can safely withstand, and
shall cause or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be
erected and maintained not less than one hundred (100) feet before each end
of such structure.
(e) Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of this
section, proof of said determination of the maximum speed by said secretary
and the existence of said signs shall constitute conclusive evidence of the
maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or
structure.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1563; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 12; L. 1975, ch. 427,
§ 27; Aug. 15.