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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 423
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-870 of the Code of Virginia, relating to speed limits.
[H 803]
Approved April 7, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-870 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-870. Maximum speed limits generally.

Except as otherwise provided in this article, the maximum speed limit shall be fifty-five miles per hour on interstate highways or other limited access highways with divided roadways, nonlimited access highways having four or more lanes, and all state primary highways.

The maximum speed limit on all other highways shall be fifty-five miles per hour if the vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle, bus, pickup or panel truck, or a motorcycle, but forty-five miles per hour on such highways if the vehicle is a truck, tractor truck, or combination of vehicles designed to transport property, or is a motor vehicle being used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house trailer.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section the maximum speed limits on those rural interstate highways where both (i) permitted by federal laws and (ii) indicated by lawfully placed signs shall be sixty-five miles per hour for passenger motor vehicles, motorcycles, buses, and pickup and panel trucks, but fifty-five miles per hour for trucks, tractor trucks, combinations of vehicles designed to transport property, house trailers, or motor vehicles being used to tow vehicles designed for self-propulsion.