Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session
Relating to: speed limits on highways adjacent to parks and playgrounds and providing a penalty. (FE)
Motor vehicle — Regulation — Speed Park Recreation Road — Marking Transportation department of — Roads
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law requires a motorist to slow to 15 miles per hour on any street or
town road, except a state trunk highway or connecting highway, abutting a public
park or recreation area when children are going to or from or are playing within the
area. The reduced speed limit applies only if the local authority in charge of the
street or road has enacted an ordinance reflecting the reduced speed limit and has
marked the area with official traffic control devices.
Under this bill, the reduced speed limit applies on any highway contiguous to
or adjacent to a playground, public park, or recreation area in an urban area or any
highway properly marked with a park or playground sign when children are present.
Any person who violates these requirements may be required to forfeit not more than
$100 for a first offense and not more than $200 for a second or subsequent offense.
The bill also requires the authority in charge of the maintenance of a highway
that borders a playground, public park, or recreation area where children accessing
or using the facility are likely to be at risk from traffic to erect signs warning
motorists of the presence of the facility.