South Carolina H 3138: Speed limits, minimums

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2025-2026 Bill 3138 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3138

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 56-5-1560, RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MINIMUM SPEED LIMITS ALONG 
THE STATE'S HIGHWAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THE MINIMUM SPEED LIMITS ALONG HIGHWAYS 
WITH MAXIMUM POSTED SPEED LIMITS OF SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR IS FIFTY MILES AN 
HOUR.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 56-5-1560 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
56-5-1560. (a)(A) Impeding traffic by slow speed prohibited. No person 
shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and 
reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe 
operation or in compliance with law.

 (b)(B) Establishing minimum speed zones; signs. Whenever the 
Department of Transportation or local authorities within their respective 
jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering and traffic 
investigation that slow speeds on any part of a highway consistently impede the 
normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the Department of Transportation or 
local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which no 
person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in 
compliance with law, when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected 
along the part of the highway for which a minimum speed limit is established. 
Also, any minimum speed limit adopted by a municipality for a section of the 
state highway within the municipality shall not be effective until such minimum 
speed has been approved by the Department of Transportation.

 (C) The minimum speed limit along a 
highway with a maximum posted speed limit of seventy miles an hour is fifty 
miles an hour.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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