ROADS AND HIGHWAYS

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
ROADS AND HIGHWAYS

: Prohibits trucks with a gross weight of 48,000 pounds or more from driving in the far left-hand lane of highways located within urbanized areas having two or more lanes of traffic in the same direction

: Requires any person operating a motorized bicycle to have a valid driver's license

: Adds motorcycles to the provisions of the Lemon Law

: Requires only operators or riders of motorcycles and motortricycles who are younger than 21 years of age to wear protective headgear and requires a study on the effects of the law to be done for three years

: Increases the fine for traffic violations in work zones from $250 to $1,000

: Designates a number of memorial highways and bridges

: Changes the definition of "all-terrain vehicle" to include certain utility vehicles manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use

: Requires residences and commercial businesses to display street addresses in a clearly visible and readable manner

: Allows the governing body of any municipality or county to authorize its employees or agents to stand in a road to solicit charitable contributions

: Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City to include the municipal boundaries of the City of Excelsior Springs and also extends the commercial zone in St. Charles County

: Prohibits a person from driving a vehicle across a clearly marked solid yellow center stripe of a roadway except when executing a lawful turn

: Designates a number of memorial highways and bridges

: Designates a portion of Interstate 55 in New Madrid County as the "Fred E. 'Gene' Copeland Highway"

: Designates a portion of State Highway 84 in Pemiscot County as the "Cleat Stanfill Memorial Highway"

: Allows certain school districts to provide transportation to students who live less than one mile from school and be reimbursed by the state if unsafe traffic situations can be demonstrated

: Changes the laws regarding political subdivisions

: Prohibits local political subdivisions from performing any maintenance on any obstruction, gate, or barricade on a state or county road

: Requires operators or riders of motorcycles and motortricycles who are younger than 21 years of age to wear protective headgear

: Designates a number of memorial highways and bridges

: Imposes an additional fine and license suspension for failing to yield the right-of-way when the violation results in injury or death

: Allows the Highways and Transportation Commission to issue bonds for highway capital improvement projects

: Changes the laws regarding commercial motor vehicles, outdoor advertising, vacating roads, log trucks, proof of lawful presence, driver's licenses, all-terrain vehicles, and vehicle weight limits

: Changes the laws regarding motor vehicle safety including intermediate driver's licenses, travel safe zones, work zone safety, child passenger restraints, and passing zones

: Changes the laws regarding motor vehicle safety including intermediate driver's licenses, travel safe zones, work zone safety, child passenger restraints, and passing zones

: Establishes the Missouri Public-Private Partnerships Transportation Act to allow a private partner to finance, develop, and/or operate a toll bridge between Illinois and Missouri in St. Louis

: Designates the Table Rock Lake bridge on Highway 39 in the City of Shell Knob as the "State Senator Larry Gene Taylor Memorial Bridge"

: Authorizes road district commissioners to establish a rate of compensation not to exceed $100 per month after the voting commissioners' terms have expired

: Changes the laws regarding the operation of a motorized bicycle

: Designates a portion of Interstate 55 in Jefferson County as the "Officer Thomas G. Smith Jr. Memorial Highway"

: Adds two traffic offenses relating to failure to yield right-of-way to an emergency vehicle for which points can be assessed against a driver's license

: Authorizes public water districts, sewer districts, and municipalities to install and maintain sewer and water lines in public roadways

: Creates the crime of motorcycle stunt driving

: Limits the liability of an emergency vehicle involved in an accident when the other driver failed to yield the right-of-way

: Specifies that a driver must yield the right-of-way to a wrecker or tow truck while performing emergency service

: Authorizes the Highways and Transportation Commission to receive electonic bids for highway and bridge contracts

: Creates the crime of using a mobile communication device while operating a moving motor vehicle if the driver is younger than 18 years of age

: Designates a number of memorial highways and bridges

: Requires all animal-driven vehicles to be equipped with conspicuity reflective tape across the entire length of the rear of the vehicle

: Prohibits the use of a firearm or crossbow to pursue, take, attempt to take, or molest wildlife on any public roadway from a motor-driven conveyance

: Authorizes a sales tax exemption on materials used in the construction of highways and other Department of Transportation projects

: Allows common carriers of household goods to request rate adjustments from the Highways and Transportation Commission

: Designates a portion of State Highway H in Dent County as the "Deputy Joann Barnes Memorial Highway"

: Changes the laws regarding operators of mobile home parks, marinas, or storage facilities for airplanes and movers of mobile homes or manufactured homes to provide documentation for property tax purposes

: Requires all public high schools to offer a driver's education course during the regular school year

: Allows Greene County to establish school zones and the minimum fines for speeding in the school zones

: Defines "designated bicycle lane" and allows bicycles to be operated in the opposite direction as vehicles when there is only one designated bicycle lane

: Designates a portion of Interstate 44 in St. Louis County as the "Trooper Ralph Tatoian Memorial Highway"

: Authorizes college and university police officers to enforce traffic regulations on college or university property

: Changes the laws regarding the relocation of utility facilities within a highway right-of-way

: Changes the laws regarding certification standards for law enforcement officers

: Allows political entities to establish automated photo red-light enforcement systems to detect red-light signal violations

: Changes the laws regarding commercial motor vehicles, outdoor advertising, vacating roads, log trucks, proof of lawful presence, driver's licenses, all-terrain vehicles, and vehicle weight limits

: Prohibits the operation of any passenger motor vehicle with a detachable trailer ball mount attached to a ball mount receiver when device is not in use

: Requires that beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, every school bus be equipped with a child safety alarm system

: Creates an affirmative defense for motorcycle riders who enter or cross an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal against a red light under certain conditions specified in the bill

: Encourages the Department of Transportation to create individual highway signs detailing the name and date of workers and police officers injured or killed on Missouri highways.

: Supports the designation of U.S. Highway 71 in Missouri as part of I-49.

: Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions

: Designates several portions of highways within Missouri after Missouri highway patrolmen

: Enacts various provisions relating to the safe operation of motor vehicles to ensure the safety of highway workers, emergency workers and other motorists

: Designates several portions of highways within Missouri after Missouri highway patrolmen

: Prohibits political subdivisions from using photo radar or automated traffic control systems to enforce traffic laws

: Prohibits conditional granting of permits or licenses upon billboard removal without just compensation

: Enacts various provisions relating to the safe operation of motor vehicles to ensure the safety of highway workers, emergency workers and other motorists

: Prohibits certain trucks from being driven in the far left-hand lane on interstate highways, freeways or expressways in this state

: Requires rest area contracts between the commission and sheltered workshops shall only be with workshops that are within 50 miles of the rest area to be maintained

: Reduces certain billboard fees for billboards under 150 square feet

: Allows for substituted service upon an insured defendant's automobile insurance company

: Adds certain municipalities and districts to the list of utilities that are under the supervision of the Transportation Commission when engaging in right-of-way

: Modifies law regarding the Scenic Byway Program

: Modifies the highway and bridge naming process

: Creates the "Fairness in Public Construction Act"

: Prohibits the Transportation Department from closing a twelve-mile portion of U.S. Highway 40 in the St. Louis area

: Authorizes the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to make electronic bids for highway and bridge contracts

: Increases the maximum length for driveaway saddlemount combinations from 75 feet to 97 feet

: Creates the "Missouri Public-Private Partnerships Transportation Act"

: Designates several portions of highways within Missouri after Missouri highway patrolmen

: Requires cities to send excess revenues derived from traffic violations to the Department of Revenue if such fines and court costs exceed 35% of the city's annual general operating revenue

: Designates the Table Rock Lake bridge on Highway 39 in Barry County near the census-designated place of Shell Knob as the "State Senator Larry Gene Taylor Memorial Bridge"

: Designates several portions of highways within Missouri after Missouri highway patrolmen

: Modifies "Macks Creek law" by applying a 45% cap on traffic fine revenues to violations that occur on all highways rather than just state highways

: Designates several portions of highways within Missouri after Missouri highway patrolmen

: Designates a portion of State Highway 179 in Cole County as the "Wyman S. Basinger Memorial Highway"

: Designates a portion of I-55 in St. Louis County as the "Officer Thomas G. Smith Jr. Memorial Highway"

: Establishes conditions for payment of just compensation for billboard removals and allows the Highways and Transportation Commission to void billboard permits under certain conditions

: Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to close rest areas to certain vehicles and prohibits the Commission from building new rest areas

: Designates the portion of Highway 21 from the intersection of Lindbergh Avenue to the intersection of Gravois Road in St. Louis County as the "Sergeant William McEntee Memorial Highway"

: Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to erect signs commemorating the Korean War at every state road or state highway that crosses or intersects the thirty-eighth parallel

: Establishes a process in which the City of Lake Ozark can withdraw from certain special road districts established in Camden County and Miller County

: Establishes a maximum speed limit of 45 mph on county gravel, dirt and other unsurfaced roads regardless if such roads are posted with signs or not

: Gives the Highways and Transportation Commission authority to finance, construct, operate, and maintain toll facilities

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:53 am