MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Porter
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-501, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE SPEED LIMIT ON STATE HIGHWAYS WITHIN THE STATE TO 70 MPH AND TO INCREASE THE SPEED LIMIT ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS WITHIN THE STATE TO 75 MPH; 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 * * * seventy (70) 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, 2025.