Bill Text: CA AB208 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 208 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Vehicles: highway: lane use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2015. [AB208 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB208-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 208	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  265
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 16, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 9, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow

                        JANUARY 29, 2015

   An act to amend Section 21656 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 208, Bigelow.  Vehicles: highway: lane use.
   Existing law requires, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe
due to specified reasons, a slow-moving vehicle behind which 5 or
more vehicles are formed in a line to turn off the roadway at the
nearest place designed as a turnout or wherever sufficient area of a
safe turnout exists in order to permit the vehicles following it to
proceed.
   This bill would instead require, on a 2-lane highway where passing
is unsafe due to specified reasons, any vehicle proceeding upon the
highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in
the same direction at that time, behind which 5 or more vehicles are
formed in line, to turn off the roadway at the nearest place
designated as a turnout or wherever sufficient area for a safe
turnout exists.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21656 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21656.  On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of
traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, any vehicle
proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of
traffic moving in the same direction at that time, behind which five
or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at
the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the
authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever
sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the
vehicles following it to proceed.