Superseded 10/1/2026
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Effective 5/12/2015
Superseded 10/1/2026
41-6a-605. Minimum speed regulations.
(1)A person may not operate a motor vehicle at a speed so slow as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when:
(a)a reduced speed is necessary for safe operation;
(b)upon a grade; or
(c)in compliance with a traffic-control device.
(2)Operating a motor vehicle on a limited access highway at less than the speed limit side by side with and at the same speed as a vehicle operated in the adjacent right lane is evidence of a violation of Subsection
(1).
(a)If, based on an engineering and traffic investigation, a highway authority determines that slow speeds on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the highway authority may post a minimum speed limit.
(b)If a minimum speed limit is posted under this Subsection
(3), a person may not operate a vehicle at a speed below the posted minimum speed limit except:
(i)when necessary for safe operation; or
(ii)in accordance with Section 41-6a-205 .
(c)The minimum speed limit is effective when appropriate signs giving notice are erected along the highway or section of the highway.
(4)A violation of this section is an infraction.
Amended by Chapter 412 , 2015 General Session