Bill Text: AZ SB1063 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Technical correction; overtaking bicycles

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - Referred to Senate RULES Committee [SB1063 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-SB1063-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; overtaking bicycles

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

SB 1063

 

Introduced by

Senator Burges

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 28-735, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to vehicle regulation.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 28-735, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-735.  Overtaking bicycles; civil penalties

A.  When overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken bicycle.

B.  If a person violates this section and the violation results in a collision causing:

1.  Serious physical injury as defined in section 13‑105 to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars.

2.  Death to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars.

C.  Subsection B of this section does not apply to if a bicyclist who is injured in a vehicular traffic lane when a designated bicycle lane or path is present and passable.END_STATUTE