15 CFR § 265.12 - Speeding or reckless driving.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t15/s265.12"
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title: "15 CFR § 265.12 - Speeding or reckless driving."
title_number: 15
title_name: "Commerce and Foreign Trade"
section_number: "265.12"
section_name: "Speeding or reckless driving."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS GOVERNING TRAFFIC AND CONDUCT"
part_number: "265"
part_name: "REGULATIONS GOVERNING TRAFFIC AND CONDUCT ON THE GROUNDS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND, AND BOULDER AND FORT COLLINS, COLORADO"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "Sec. 9, 31 Stat. 1450, as amended (15 U.S.C. 277). Applies sec. 1, 72 Stat 1711, as amended, (15 U.S.C. 278e(b))."
regulatory_source: "39 FR 41170, Nov. 25, 1974, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "265"
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# 265.12 Speeding or reckless driving.

(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on the site at a speed greater than or in a manner other than is reasonable and prudent for the particular location, given the conditions of traffic, weather, and road surface and having regard to the actual and potential hazards existing.

(b) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with paragraph (a) of this section, the speed limit on the site is 25 m.p.h., unless another speed limit has been duly posted, and no person shall drive a motor vehicle on the site in excess of the speed limit.