The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1003)
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§ 1003. State speed zones
(a) When the Traffic Committee constituted under 19 V.S.A. § 1(24) determines, on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that shall take
into account, if applicable, safe speeds within school zones (or safe speeds within
200 feet of school district-operated prekindergarten program facilities owned or leased
by a school district) when children are traveling to or from such schools or facilities,
that a maximum speed limit established by this chapter is greater or less than is
reasonable or safe under conditions found to exist at any place or upon any part of
a State highway, including the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate
and Defense Highways, it may determine and declare a reasonable and safe limit that
is effective when appropriate signs stating the limit are erected. This limit may
be declared to be effective at all times or at times indicated upon the signs; and
differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of
vehicles, varying weather conditions, or based on other factors bearing on safe speeds,
which are effective when posted upon appropriate fixed or alterable signs.
(b) When establishing a maximum speed limit on a State highway contiguous to a school,
the Traffic Committee shall consider, along with the engineering and traffic investigation,
data collected for the purpose of promulgating a school travel plan under the Vermont
Safe Routes to School Program. (Added 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 1, 1973; amended 2003, No. 151 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2009, No. 50, § 100; 2009, No. 123 (Adj. Sess.), § 40, eff. May 26, 2010.)