§ 56-5-1570 — Special speed limitations for certain vehicles and places.

(a) Vehicles towing house trailers. —No person shall drive a vehicle which is towing a house trailer at a speed greater than a maximum of forty-five miles per hour. (b) Vehicles with solid rubber or cushion tires. —No person shall drive any vehicle equipped with solid rubber or cushion tires at a speed greater than a maximum of ten miles per hour. (c) On elevated structures; safe speed not to be exceeded. —No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure, when such structure is signposted as provided in this section. (d) Same; establishing safe maximum limit. The Department of Transportation upon request from any local authority 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 such structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this chapter, the Department of Transportation shall determine and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which such structure can safely withstand, and shall cause or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be erected and maintained before each end of such structure. (e) Same; proof of limit and signs conclusive evidence of safe speed. Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of this section, proof of determination of the maximum speed by the Department of Transportation and the existence of such signs shall constitute conclusive evidence of the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 46-366; 1952 Code SECTIONS 46-365, 46-366; 1949 (46) 466; 1966 (54) 2244; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1408.