Bill Text: NC S303 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Use of Passing Lane/Increased Penalty
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate [S303 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S303-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
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SENATE BILL 303
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Short Title: Use of Passing Lane/Increased Penalty. |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Tarte, McInnis, J. Davis (Primary Sponsors); Britt and Brock. |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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March 20, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the prohibition on operating a motor vehicle in the leftmost travel lane of a controlled‑access or partially controlled‑access highway at less than the speed limit or when impeding the steady flow of traffic and to increase the monetary penalty for committing a violation of that prohibition.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑146 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20‑146. Drive on right side of highway; exceptions.
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(b) Upon all highwayscontrolled‑access
and partially controlled‑access highways, any vehicle proceeding at
less than the legal maximum speed limit or impeding the steady flow of
traffic shall be driven in the right‑hand lane then available for
thru traffic, or as close as practicable to the right‑hand curb or edge
of the highway, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding
in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn.a lane other
than the inside lane next to the centerline or median of a multilane highway,
except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same
direction or when making a left turn. A person who violates this subsection is
guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of two hundred dollars ($200.00). For
purposes of this subsection, a person is "impeding the steady flow of
traffic" if the person knows or reasonably should know that he or she is
being overtaken from the rear by a vehicle traveling at a higher rate of speed.
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(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
section, when appropriate signs have been posted, it shall be unlawful for any
person to operate a motor vehicle over and upon the inside lane, next to the
median of any dual‑lane highway at a speed less than the posted speed
limit when the operation of said motor vehicle over and upon said inside lane
shall impede the steady flow of traffic except when preparing for a left turn. "Appropriate
signs" as used herein shall be construed as including "Slower Traffic
Keep Right" or designations of similar import."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2017, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
