AB 208, as amended, Bigelow. Vehicles: highway: lane use.
Existing law requires, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, a slow-moving vehicle behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in a line to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designed as a turnout or wherever sufficient area of a safe turnout exists in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed.
This bill wouldbegin delete make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.end deletebegin insert instead require, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time, behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in
line, to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 21656 of the Vehicle Code is amended
2to read:
On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because
4of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions,begin delete a begin insert any vehicle
5slow-moving vehicle, including a passenger vehicle,end delete
6proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed
7of traffic moving in the same direction at that time,end insert behind which
8five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off thebegin delete highwayend delete
9begin insert roadwayend insert at the
nearest place designated as a turnout by signs
10erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or
11wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit
12the vehicles following it to proceed.begin delete As used in this section a
13slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed
14less than the normal flow of traffic at the
particular time and place.end delete
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