{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-41-6a-605","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 41-6a-605","heading":"Minimum speed regulations.","body":"(1) A person may not operate a motor vehicle at a speed so slow as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when:\n(a) a reduced speed is necessary for safe operation;\n(b) upon a grade; or\n(c) in compliance with a traffic-control device.\n(2) Operating a motor vehicle on a limited access highway at less than the speed limit side by side with and at the same speed as a vehicle operated in the adjacent right lane is evidence of a violation of Subsection (1).\n(3)\n(a) If, based on an engineering and traffic investigation, a highway authority determines that slow speeds on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the highway authority may post a minimum speed limit.\n(b) If a minimum speed limit is posted under this Subsection (3), a person may not operate a vehicle at a speed below the posted minimum speed limit except:\n(i) when necessary for safe operation; or\n(ii) in accordance with Section 41-6a-205.\n(c) The minimum speed limit is effective when appropriate signs giving notice are erected along the highway or section of the highway.\n(4) A violation of this section is an infraction.","path":["Title 41 Motor Vehicles","Chapter 41-6a Traffic Code","Part 41-6a-6 Speed Restrictions"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter6a/41-6a-S605.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"a3299475446d2b6328c74a644380a4b18451d75894bf3f7ce84147af4ca3d50a","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-41-6a-604.5","next":"us-ut/utah-code-41-6a-606"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}