SENATE MOTION

MR. PRESIDENT:

    I move that Engrossed House Bill  1261 be amended
to read as follows:

Page 2, after line 9 insert:
    þSECTION 2.  IC 9-21-4-3.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 1996]:  Sec. 3.5.  A law enforcement officer may use
photo and video recording devices to identify and determine
the speed of vehicles in violation of established  speed
limits.  The bureau shall send notice of the speed limit
violation  to the registered owner of the vehicle identified
by the photo or video recording device, advising the
registered owner that law enforcement officials possess a
photo or video recording of the operation of the ownerþs
vehicle in violation of established speed limits.  The
bureauþs notice shall advise the registered owner of the
date, time and place the owner must appear in court unless
the registered owner pays the fine imposed for the violation
to the bureau by mail at least five (5) days before the
court date. 
    SECTION 3. IC 9-21-5-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1996]: Sec. 2. Except when a special
hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with
section 1 of this chapter, the slower speed
limit specified in this section or established as authorized
by section 3 of this chapter is the maximum lawful speed. A
person may not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in
excess of the following maximum limits:
         (1) Thirty (30) miles per hour in an urban
         district.
         (2) Fifty-five (55) miles per hour, except as
         provided in subdivisions (1), (3),
         and (4), and (5).
         (3) Sixty-five (65) Seventy
         (70) miles per hour on a highway on the
         national system of interstate and defense highways
         located outside of an urbanized area (as defined
         in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least
         fifty thousand (50,000). except as
         provided in subdivision (4).
         (4) Sixty (60) Sixty-five
         (65) miles per hour for a vehicle
         (other than a bus) having a declared gross weight
         greater than twenty-six thousand (26,000)
         pounds on a divided state highway
         on the national system of interstate and
         defense highways located outside an
         urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with
         a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000).
         (5) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
    SECTION 4. IC 9-21-5-13 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1996]: Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided
in subsection (b), a person who violates this chapter
commits a Class C infraction.
    (b) This subsection applies to a person who operates
a vehicle (other than a bus) having a declared gross weight
of more than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds. A person
who violates this chapter commits a Class B infraction.
(Reference is to EHB 1261 as printed February 20, 1996)

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                                                Senator HUME