Bill Text: NH HB374 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-11 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 24, PG. 800 [HB374 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2015-HB374-Introduced.html
HB 374 – AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
03/04
HOUSE BILL 374
AN ACT permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.
SPONSORS: Rep. Beaudoin, Straf 9; Rep. LeBrun, Hills 32; Rep. Spillane, Rock 2; Rep. D. Thomas, Rock 5; Rep. Gould, Hills 7
This bill permits motor-driven cycles and bicycles to turn left or proceed straight through an intersection after stopping for a red light when a detection device does not detect the vehicle.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0465
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT permitting certain vehicles to proceed through an intersection after stopping for a red light.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Traffic Control Signal Legend; Steady Red Indication; Proceeding Through Intersection. Amend RSA 265:10, III(f) to read as follows:
(f) Except when the authority having jurisdiction over the intersection prohibits such a turn and a sign located at the intersection so indicates, vehicular traffic facing a steady circular red signal alone or a steady red arrow indication shall stop as required in this section and may after making such stop make a right turn if such right turn is lawful at that intersection. If a traffic control signal uses a vehicle detection device, riders of motor-driven cycles and bicycles facing a steady circular red signal shall stop as required by this section and may, after making such stop and waiting for the signal to detect the motor-driven cycle or bicycle, turn left or proceed straight through the intersection subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign. Such turning or proceeding vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
