§ 31-5-301 — Maximum speed limits

Wyoming § 31-5-301

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 31: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 5: REGULATION OF TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAYS
• Art. 3: SPEED REGULATIONS

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(a) No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a
speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the
conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards
then existing. Consistent with the foregoing, every person
shall drive at a safe and appropriate speed when approaching and
crossing an intersection or railroad grade crossing, when
approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a
hillcrest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway and
when special hazards exist with respect to pedestrians or other
traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions.
(b) Except when a special hazard exists that requires
lower speed for compliance with subsection (a) of this section,
subject to W.S. 31-5-203(b), the limits specified in this
subsection or established as otherwise authorized shall be
maximum lawful speeds and no person shall drive a vehicle on a
highway at a speed in excess of maximum limits:
(i) Twenty (20) miles per hour when passing a school
building, the grounds thereof, within any other area or space in
the vicinity of a school designated by an official traffic
control device as a school zone with a reduced speed limit or a
school crossing if appropriate signs giving notice of a reduced
speed limit are erected;
(ii) Thirty (30) miles per hour in any urban district
and in any residence district or subdivision except on roads
that have been designated a private road pursuant to W.S.
18-5-306(a)(vii);
(iii) Except as provided under paragraph (vi) of this
subsection, seventy-five (75) miles per hour on interstate
highways. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to:
(A) Affect the authority of the superintendent
to otherwise designate lower or higher maximum speed limits on
interstate highways in accordance with other laws; or
(B) Authorize noncompliance with posted speed
limits on interstate highways.
(iv) For all other locations for which a maximum
speed limit is not specified under this subsection, sixty-five
(65) miles per hour where the roadway is paved and fifty-five
(55) miles per hour where the roadway is unpaved;
(v) Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 61, § 2.
(vi) Notwithstanding paragraph (iii) of this
subsection, eighty (80) miles per hour on interstate highways
designated by the superintendent;
(vii) Seventy (70) miles per hour on state highways,
as defined in W.S. 31-18-101(a)(xvii), that are not interstate
highways, as defined in W.S. 31-18-801(a)(xvi).
(c) Subject to W.S. 31-5-203(b), the maximum speed limits
set forth in this section may be altered as authorized in W.S.
31-5-302 and 31-5-303.
(d) Speeding violations of up to eighty (80) miles per
hour where the posted speed limit is at least sixty-five (65)
miles per hour but not more than seventy-five (75) miles per
hour, or less than six (6) miles per hour over the posted speed
limit in all other instances and zones, except violations for
exceeding the speed limit in a school zone, or construction
zone, and violations received while operating a commercial motor
vehicle as defined by W.S. 31-7-102(a)(viii), shall not be made
a part of the abstracts or records kept by the department of
transportation pursuant to W.S. 31-5-1214 or 31-7-120.