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169.14.5d

Statute ID: 15375

Statute Function ID: 32987

Traffic - Speeding - Excess speed; one lane/portion of lane closed or workers present in work zone

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Statute Number:

169.14.5d

Enactment Date:

May 20, 2014

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2014

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Traffic - Speeding - Excess speed; one lane/portion of lane closed or workers present in work zone

Statute ID:

15375

Created:

Jul 17, 2014 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 17, 2014 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2014 c 312 art 11 s 7; Charge now at (a) or (d); renumbered;

Summary Text:

Traffic - Speeding - Excess speed; one lane/portion of lane closed or workers present in work zone

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/14.html

Legislative Session:

2014 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 17, 2014

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision 2 and subject to subdivision 3, the speed limit on a road having an established speed limit of 50 miles per hour or greater is adjusted to 45 miles per hour in a work zone when (1) at least one lane or portion of a lane of traffic is closed in either direction, and (2) workers are present. A speed in excess of the adjusted speed limit is unlawful.

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to a segment of road in which:

(1) positive barriers are placed between workers and the traveled portion of the highway;

(2) the work zone is in place for less than 24 hours;

(3) a different speed limit for the work zone is determined by the road authority following an engineering and traffic investigation and based on accepted engineering practice; or

(4) a different speed limit for the work zone is established by the road authority under paragraph (c).

(c) The commissioner, on trunk highways and temporary trunk highways, and local authorities, on streets and highways under their jurisdiction, may authorize the use of reduced maximum speed limits in work zones when workers are present, without an engineering and traffic investigation required. The work zone speed limit must not reduce the speed limit on the affected street or highway by more than:

(1) 20 miles per hour on a street or highway having an established speed limit of 55 miles per hour or greater;

(2) 15 miles per hour on a street or highway having an established speed limit of 50 miles per hour or less.

(d) A work zone speed limit under paragraph (c) is effective on erection of appropriate regulatory speed limit signs. The signs must be removed or covered when they are not required. A speed in excess of the posted work zone speed limit is unlawful.

(e) For any speed limit under this subdivision, a road authority shall erect signs identifying the speed limit and indicating the beginning and end of the speed limit zone.