The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
008
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SPEED RESTRICTIONS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1083)
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§ 1083. Special speed limitations
(a) No person may drive any vehicle equipped with iron, steel, or solid rubber tires at
a speed greater than 10 miles per hour.
(b) No person may drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting
a part of a highway at a speed that is greater than the maximum speed that can be
maintained with safety to the bridge or structure, except when the bridge or structure
is signposted as provided in this section. The legislative body of a municipality
may erect notices one hundred feet in both directions along the highway stating the
maximum speed at which vehicles may be operated on the bridge or structure.
(c) The Traffic Committee, upon request from the legislative body of any municipality
shall, or upon its own initiative may, conduct an investigation of any bridge or other
elevated structure constituting a part of a highway, and if it finds that the bridge
or structure cannot, with safety to itself, withstand vehicles traveling at the speed
otherwise permissible under this chapter, the Committee shall declare the maximum
speed of vehicles upon the bridge or structure and shall cause or permit suitable
signs stating the maximum speed to be erected and maintained before each end of the
bridge or structure.
(d) No person may drive a vehicle towing a trailer exempted from the weight requirements
as provided in subsection 1307(h) of this title at speeds greater than 35 miles per hour. (Added 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 1, 1973; amended 1975, No. 213 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. April 1, 1976.)