On February 29, 2024, Associate Policy Director Dominic Butchko submitted written testimony to the House Environment and Transportation Committee in support of HB 972- Motor Vehicles- Off-Highway Vehicles- Clarifications and Revisions. This bill enables counties to establish speed limits for off-highway vehicles on county roadways.
Increasingly, off-highway vehicles are being used in suburban and urban environments, both out of the scope of intended use and in some cases, to the detriment of the surrounding community. HB 972 seeks to clarify state and local authority by explicitly stating that both levels of government have the ability to regulate the speed of these vehicles on state and county highways.
HB 972 was heard in the opposite chamber, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, on March 27. MACo submitted testimony in support of this bill.
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