| The Department of Transportation may require a municipality | with a population of 5,000 or more as measured by the latest | decennial United States census that has not provided written | notice to the department that the municipality will set | speed limits in accordance with this paragraph to provide | the department with all data necessary to set such speed | limits. The nature, extent and form of that data must be | acceptable to the department and may include, without | limitation, the reason for the request, length and location | of the proposed speed zone, road width, number of driveways | in that zone, traffic volume, posted speed, prevailing speed | as measured by radar, accident history and speed enforcement | efforts.; and |
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| | Sec. 4. 29-A MRSA §2075, sub-§3, ¶F is enacted to read: |
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| F.__With the approval of the Department of Transportation | and the Chief of the State Police, and in accordance with | the latest edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control | Devices published by the Federal Highway Administration, | designate a school zone to which the speed limits in section | 2074, subsection 1, paragraph A apply. |
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