MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Stringer
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-501, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT FOR INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AND CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAYS WITH FOUR OR MORE LANES FROM 70 MILES PER HOUR TO 75 MILES PER HOUR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 63-3-501, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
63-3-501. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall operate a vehicle on the highways of the state at a speed greater than sixty-five (65) miles per hour.
The Mississippi
Transportation Commission may, in its discretion, by order duly entered on its
minutes, increase the speed restrictions on any portion of the Interstate
Highway System provided such speed restrictions are not increased to more than * * * seventy-five (75)
miles per hour. The commission may likewise increase the speed limit to * * *
seventy-five (75)
miles per hour on controlled access highways with four (4) or more lanes.
A governmental entity that operates and maintains a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-1, or that contracts with some person or business to operate and maintain a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-3, may establish the maximum speed for motor vehicles operated on any such toll road; however, the maximum speed so established may not exceed eighty (80) miles per hour.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.