Speed

Section 60-6,186
Speed; maximum limits; signs.

    (1) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with section 60-6,185, the limits set forth in this section and sections 60-6,187, 60-6,188, 60-6,305, and 60-6,313 shall be the maximum lawful speeds unless reduced pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of such maximum limits:

    (a) Twenty-five miles per hour in any residential district;

    (b) Twenty miles per hour in any business district;

    (c) Fifty miles per hour upon any highway that is not dustless surfaced and not part of the state highway system;

    (d) Fifty-five miles per hour upon any dustless-surfaced highway not a part of the state highway system;

    (e)(i) Until September 1, 1996, fifty-five miles per hour upon any part of the state highway system other than an expressway or a freeway; and

    (ii) Beginning on and after September 1, 1996, sixty miles per hour upon any part of the state highway system other than an expressway or a freeway, except that the Department of Roads may, where existing design and traffic conditions allow, according to an engineering study, authorize a speed limit five miles per hour greater;

    (f) Sixty-five miles per hour upon an expressway that is part of the state highway system; and

    (g) Seventy-five miles per hour upon a freeway that is part of the state highway system and upon the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, except that the maximum speed limit shall be sixty miles per hour for:

    (i) Any portion of a freeway and the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located in Douglas County; and

    (ii) That portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways designated as Interstate 180 in Lancaster County and Interstate 129 in Dakota County.

    (2) The maximum speed limits established in subsection (1) of this section may be reduced by the Department of Roads or by local authorities pursuant to section 60-6,188 or 60-6,190.

    (3) The Department of Roads and local authorities may erect and maintain suitable signs along highways under their respective jurisdictions in such number and at such locations as they deem necessary to give adequate notice of the speed limits established pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) of this section upon such highways.

Source:
Laws 1973, LB 45, § 62
Laws 1974, LB 873, § 1
Laws 1975, LB 381, § 1
Laws 1977, LB 256, § 1
Laws 1987, LB 430, § 1
R.S.1943, (1988), § 39-662
Laws 1993, LB 370, § 282
Laws 1996, LB 901, § 7

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