HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              2523

reasonable and safe maximum speed limit for that part of the
highway, which may:

(i) Decrease the limit at an intersection;

(ii) Increase the limit in an urban
district to not more than 50 miles an hour;

(iii) Decrease the limit in an urban
district; or

(iv) Decrease the limit outside an urban
district to not less than 25 miles an hour.

(2) An engineering and traffic investigation is
not required to conform a posted maximum speed limit in
effect on December 31, 1974, to a different limit specified
in § 21-801.1(b) of this subtitle.

(b)  In school zones designated and posted by the local
authorities of [Montgomery County, the] ANY COUNTY:

(1)  THE county may decrease the maximum speed
limit to 15 miles per hour during school hours , PROVIDED
THE COUNTY PAYS THE COST OF PLACING AND MAINTAINING THE
NECESSARY SIGNS; AND

(2)  ANY MUNICIPALITY WITHIN EACH COUNTY MAY
DECREASE THE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT IN A SCHOOL ZONE WITHIN THE
MUNICIPALITY TO 15 MILES PER HOUR DURING SCHOOL HOURS ,
PROVIDED THE MUNICIPALITY PAYS THE COST OF PLACING AND
MAINTAINING THE NECESSARY SIGNS.

(c)  An altered maximum speed limit established under
this section is effective when posted on appropriate signs
giving notice of the limit.

(d)  Except in Baltimore City, any alteration by a
local authority of a maximum speed limit on a part or
extension of a State highway is not effective until it is
approved by the State Highway Administration.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 253
(Senate Bill 157)