41-6a-605.   Minimum speed regulations.
     (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:
     (a) a reduced speed is necessary for safe operation;
     (b) upon a grade; or
     (c) in compliance with a traffic-control device.
     (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).
     (3) (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.
     (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:
     (i) when necessary for safe operation; or
     (ii) in accordance with Section 41-6a-205.
     (c) The minimum speed limit is effective when appropriate signs giving notice are erected along the highway or section of the highway.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 2, 2005 General Session
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