Section 117.5d - Locomotives; enforceability of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit.
THE HOME RULE CITY ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 279 of 1909
117.5d Locomotives; enforceability of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit.
Sec. 5d.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, on and after the effective date of a passenger railroad maximum speed limit specified in a final order of the director of the state transportation department, an ordinance of a city prescribing the maximum speed limit of locomotives used in passenger train operations or of passenger railroad trains shall not be enforceable as to a speed limit other than the limit set forth in the order. However, a city may prescribe the length of the time for which a passenger locomotive or passenger railroad train may obstruct vehicular traffic.
History: Add. 1984, Act 11, Imd. Eff. Feb. 16, 1984