SRC - 2010 Session Proposed FRAP Law Updates

I am working with Freshman Rep. Anderson from my district on this, will likely submit something to leg. review Monday or Tuesday Feb 1st/2nd.

(1) A person operating a bicycle or a moped on a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall ride in the right-most lane then practicable for safe travel or in the left-most lane on a roadway designed for one-way traffic except while preparing to make a left turn as provided by 41-6a-801(2); or overtaking slower vehicles proceeding in the same direction. The operator shall have exclusive use of the full lane; unless the lane is wide enough to safely and practicably allow all other traffic present in the lane to overtake the bicycle within the lane at the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing, to allow safe sharing or safe travel, the lane is defined as:
(a) The vehicle sharing the lane is able to remain completely inside the lane, and
(b) There is at least three feet between the edge of the bicycle or moped including rider(s) and any part of the vehicle, and
(c) There is at least three feet between the edge of the bicycle or moped including rider(s) and parked cars.
. ride as near as practicable to the right-hand edge of the roadway except when:
     (a) overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction;
     (b) preparing to make a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway;
     (c) traveling straight through an intersection that has a right-turn only lane that is in conflict with the straight through movement; or
     (d) reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand edge of the roadway including:
     (i) fixed or moving objects;
     (ii) parked or moving vehicles;
     (iii) bicycles;
     (iv) pedestrians;
     (v) animals;
     (vi) surface hazards; or
     (vii) a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane.
(2) A person operating a bicycle or moped on a highway shall operate in the designated direction of traffic.
(3) (a) A person riding a bicycle or moped on a roadway may not ride more than two abreast with another person except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
     (b) If allowed under Subsection (3)(a), a person riding two abreast with another person may not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic and shall ride within a single lane unless the lane is to narrow to safely share as provided by (1).
~~(4) If a usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a roadway, a bicycle rider may be directed by a traffic-control device to use the path and not the roadway.~~
(4) A person shall not operate, stop, park or leave standing a vehicle in a path or lane designated as a bicycle path or lane by a state or local authority except in the case of emergency or for crossing the path or lane to gain access to and within 100 feet of a public or private road or driveway.
(5). Subsection (4) does not prohibit the use of the path or lane by the appropriate local authority or for the active loading and unloading of passengers by a transit authority.

Optionally remove section (1) completely and move to the slower than traffic general rule as modified above:
41-6a-701 - State of Utah
Duty to operate vehicle on right side of roadway

41-6a-708.   Signs and markings on roadway -- No-passing zones -- Exceptions.
     (1) (a) A highway authority may designate no-passing zones on any portion of a highway under its jurisdiction if the highway authority determines passing is especially hazardous.
     (b) A highway authority shall designate a no-passing zone under Subsection (1)(a) by placing appropriate traffic-control devices on the highway.
     (2) A person operating a vehicle may not drive on the left side of:
     (a) the roadway within the no-passing zone; or
     (b) any pavement striping designed to mark the no-passing zone.
     (3) Subsection (2) does not apply:
**    (a) under the conditions described under Subsection 41-6a-701(1)(b); or
     (b) to a person operating a vehicle turning left onto or from an alley, private road, or driveway.

41-6a-701.   Duty to operate vehicle on right side of roadway -- Exceptions.
     (1) On all roadways of sufficient width, a person operating a vehicle shall operate the vehicle on the right half of the roadway, except:
     (a) when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing that movement;
     (b) when an obstruction or passing a vehicle on a roadway traveling at 15 miles per hour less than the normal speed of other traffic then present requires operating the vehicle to the left of the center of the roadway subject to the provisions of Subsection (2);
     (c) on a roadway divided into three marked lanes for traffic under the applicable rules; or
     (d) on a roadway designed and signposted for one-way traffic.
     (2) A person operating a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle:
     (a) traveling in the proper direction on a roadway; and
     (b) that is within a distance constituting an immediate hazard.
     (3) A person operating a vehicle on a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic shall operate the vehicle in the right-hand lane then available for traffic, or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, except when:
     (a) overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction;
     (b) preparing to turn left; or
     (c) taking a different highway or an exit on the left.

DC: 2201.2 Upon all roadways, any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand plane then available for traffic, or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road, driveway, or alley.