HB 1223 –AS INTRODUCED
2014 SESSION
03/06
HOUSE BILL 1223
AN ACT relative to driving on limited access highways.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lockwood, Merr 9
This bill restricts use of the left lane of a limited access highway of 3 lanes or more.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
14-2187
03/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to driving on limited access highways.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Driving on Divided Ways; Use of Left Lane of Limited Access Highways. Amend RSA 265:26 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:
I-a. A vehicle shall not be driven in the left lane of any limited access highway of 3 lanes or more with a posted speed limit of at least 65 miles per hour, except in overtaking a slower vehicle, in yielding to traffic coming onto such highway, or when traffic conditions exist which would prohibit safe use of the right or center lanes.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.