AB 625

Under current law, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and local highway

authorities may increase or decrease the maximum speed limit applicable to

highways under their respective jurisdiction if DOT or the local highway authorities

determine that the current maximum speed limit in effect is not reasonable or safe

or that the current actual speed of traffic is not reasonable or prudent. Local highway

authorities are prohibited from modifying certain speed limits without the approval

of DOT, including the reduction of most speed limits by more than ten miles per hour.

This bill allows local highway authorities to reduce a maximum speed limit on

a county trunk highway in a designated school zone to not less than 25 miles per hour.

The speed limit may be reduced without DOT approval.