Bill Text - HB1308 (2016)

Allowing motorcycles to travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.


Revision: Dec. 14, 2015, midnight

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HB 1308 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL\t1308

 

AN ACT\tallowing motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.

 

SPONSORS:\tRep. Lachance, Hills. 8; Rep. Jones, Straf. 24; Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Burt, Hills. 39; Rep. D. Thomas, Rock. 5; Rep. Moore, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE:\tTransportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

\tThis bill allows motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic when traffic is stopped or traveling less than 10 miles per hour.

 

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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.

\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT\tallowing motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.

 

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

 

\t1  Rules of the Road; Motorcycles.  Amend RSA 265:121, II-III to read as follows:

\t\tII.  The driver of a motorcycle [shall not] may overtake and pass a vehicle in the same lane [occupied by] only if the vehicle being overtaken is stopped or traveling at less than 10 miles per hour.

\t\tIII.  No person shall drive a motorcycle on a roadway between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles unless the traffic or rows of vehicles are stopped or traveling at less than 10 miles per hour.

\t2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.