STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 54th Legislature (2014)

HOUSE BILL 2332	By:	Cleveland

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to motor vehicles; making certain acts unlawful; providing penalty; defining term; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11-1120 of Title 47, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  When approaching and passing a sanitation worker, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care by reducing the speed of the motor vehicle and by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the sanitation worker of not less than five (5) feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the sanitation worker.
B.  Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided for in Section 17-101 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
C.  As used in this section, "sanitation worker" means an individual engaged in the collection and transport of solid waste and recyclables.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2014.

54-2-8878	GRS	12/16/13