Bill Text: AZ HB2300 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Driving on highways; lane regulations
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2010-05-10 - Governor Vetoed [HB2300 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2010-HB2300-Engrossed.html
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Senate Engrossed House Bill |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010
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HOUSE BILL 2300 |
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AN ACT
amending section 28-736, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to driving on highways.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 28-736, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
28-736. Use of highway lanes; restrictions
A. If the department or a local authority determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation of a highway under its jurisdiction that the designation of a specific lane or lanes for travel of the vehicles prescribed in subsection B of this section would facilitate the safe and orderly movement of traffic, the department or local authority may designate a specific lane or lanes for the travel of those vehicles. and shall erect signs at reasonable intervals giving notice of those lanes.
B. The following vehicles shall be driven in the lane or lanes designated pursuant to subsection A of this section if signs are erected giving notice of that designation:
1. A motor vehicle or vehicle combination with a declared gross weight of more than twenty‑six thousand pounds, excluding a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver. For the purposes of this paragraph, "declared gross weight" and "vehicle combination" have the same meaning meanings prescribed in section 28‑5431.
2. A vehicle that is drawing a pole trailer that weighs six thousand or more pounds.
C. Prior to enforcement of subsection B of this section, the department shall provide and erect signs at reasonable intervals giving notice of the lane designation.
C. D. This section does not apply to a driver who is preparing for a left‑hand or right‑hand turn, who is entering or exiting a highway or who must necessarily drive in a lane other than the designated lane to continue on the driver's intended route.
Sec. 2. Engineering and safety study; department of transportation; pilot program; report
A. In cooperation with the department of public safety, the department of transportation shall conduct an engineering and safety study of traffic flow activity of all types of motor vehicles in the non-urbanized areas of interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson, and in any other non-urbanized areas along the controlled access highways with three or more lanes in each direction, to determine the likely safety improvements and feasibility of implementing commercial vehicle lane restrictions in non-urbanized areas.
B. The department of transportation shall implement recommendations from the study that will improve traffic flow in areas along interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson, considering various factors, including the volume of traffic, types of vehicles, accident rates and causes, number of lanes of traffic and distance between on and off ramps.
C. The department shall complete and implement the recommendations of the study as a pilot program on or before June 30, 2011. The department will evaluate and monitor the pilot program for two years and will provide a report to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the appropriate legislative committees.
Sec. 3. Delayed repeal
Section 2 of this act, relating to the engineering and safety study, is repealed from and after June 30, 2013.
