2003 House Bill 5089 ↩

Senate Roll Call 596: Passed

To define a "designated work zone" as an area of a street or highway in which construction, maintenance, or utility work activities are being conducted. A work zone would include the area between the first sign indicating a work area or traffic control device and an "end road work" sign. It would also include rolling repair work performed by a work crew and one or more moving repair vehicles. These areas would be subject to the 45 miles-per-hour construction zone speed restrictions which now apply where a normal lane or part of the lane of traffic has been closed. (The procedures for establishing a different speed limit in such a zone are also revised.) The bill would also prohibit the use by a motorist of a mobile infrared transmitter, which is a device that emits an infrared beam with the capability of changing a traffic light to green.