Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 172

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21, SECTION 4169 (b), DELAWARE CODE, RELATIVE TO SPEED LIMITS AND EFFECT OF SIGNS ON HIGHWAYS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Title 21, section 4169 (b), Delaware Code, is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b) the following sentence :

Where appropriate signs giving notice of reasonable and safe maximum speed limits are erected on any highway, proof of the existence of such signs shall be prima facie evidence in any court of this State that the State Highway Department has determined that the speed indicated upon such signs is the reasonable and safe maximum speed for said highway.

Approved December 27, 1967.