Maximum speed limits
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), (4), (5), (6), and (7).
(3) 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-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 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) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour on:
(A) U.S. 20 from the intersection of U.S. 20 and County
Road 17 in Elkhart County to the intersection of U.S. 20 and
U.S. 31 in St. Joseph County;
(B) U.S. 31 from the intersection of U.S. 31 and U.S. 20 in
St. Joseph County to the boundary line between Indiana and
Michigan; and
(C) a highway classified by the Indiana department of
transportation as an INDOT Freeway.
(6) On a highway that is the responsibility of the Indiana
transportation finance authority established by IC 8-9.5-8-2:
(A) seventy (70) miles per hour for:
(i) a motor vehicle having a declared gross weight of not
more than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds; or
(ii) a bus; or
(B) sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a motor vehicle having
a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand
(26,000) pounds.
(7) Sixty (60) miles per hour on a highway that:
(A) is not designated as a part of the national system of
interstate and defense highways;
(B) has four (4) or more lanes;
(C) is divided into two (2) or more roadways by:
(i) an intervening space that is unimproved and not
intended for vehicular travel;
(ii) a physical barrier; or
(iii) a dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
traffic; and
(D) is located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23
U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand
(50,000).
(8) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.92-1991, SEC.2;
P.L.1-1993, SEC.56; P.L.151-2005, SEC.2.
Last modified: May 27, 2006