Bill Text: VA SB781 | 2015 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Passing with a double yellow line; drivers allowed to pass a pedestrian, bicycle, skateboard, etc.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) [SB781 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2015-SB781-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §46.2-804 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §46.2-804. Special regulations applicable on highways laned for traffic. For the purposes of this section, "traffic lines" includes any temporary traffic control devices used to emulate the lines and markings in subdivisions 6 and 7. Whenever any roadway has been divided into clearly marked lanes for traffic, drivers of vehicles shall obey the following: 1. Any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions existing, shall be driven in the lane nearest the right edge or right curb of the highway when such lane is available for travel except when overtaking and passing another vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or where right lanes are reserved for slow-moving traffic as permitted in this section; 2. A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as is practicable entirely within a single lane and shall not be moved from that lane until the driver has ascertained that such movement can be made safely; 3. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision 5 4. The Commissioner of Highways, or local authorities in their respective jurisdictions, may designate right lanes for slow-moving vehicles and the Virginia Department of Transportation shall post signs requiring trucks and combination vehicles to keep to the right on Interstate Highway System components with no more than two travel lanes in each direction where terrain is likely to slow the speed of such vehicles climbing hills and inclines to a speed that is less than the posted speed limit; 5. Wherever a highway is marked with double traffic lines
consisting of a solid line immediately adjacent to a broken line, no vehicle
shall be driven to the left of such line if the solid line is on the right of
the broken line, 6. Wherever a highway is marked with double traffic lines consisting of two immediately adjacent solid yellow lines, no vehicle shall be driven to the left of such lines, except (i) when turning left or (ii) in order to pass a pedestrian or a device moved by human power, including a bicycle, skateboard, or foot-scooter, provided such movement can be made safely; and 7. Whenever a highway is marked with double traffic lines
consisting of two immediately adjacent solid white lines, no vehicle shall
cross such lines
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