HB1365 (2014) Detail

Permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.


HB 1365 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2020

03/10

HOUSE BILL 1365

AN ACT permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.

SPONSORS: Rep. Meaney, Hills 6; Rep. Burt, Hills 6; Rep. Warden, Hills 39; Rep. Boehm, Hills?20; Rep. Beaudoin, Straf 9

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill permits motor-driven cycles and bicycles to turn left or proceed straight through an intersection after stopping for a red light when a detection device does not detect the vehicle.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2020

03/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Traffic Control Signal Legend; Steady Red Indication; Proceeding Through Intersection. Amend RSA 265:10, III(f) to read as follows:

(f) Except when the authority having jurisdiction over the intersection prohibits such a turn and a sign located at the intersection so indicates, vehicular traffic facing a steady circular red signal alone or a steady red arrow indication shall stop as required in this section and may after making such stop make a right turn if such right turn is lawful at that intersection. If a traffic control signal uses a vehicle detection device, riders of motor-driven cycles and bicycles facing a steady circular red signal shall stop as required by this section and may, after making such stop and waiting for the signal to detect the motor-driven cycle or bicycle, turn left or proceed straight through the intersection subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign. Such turning or proceeding vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.