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DRIVING ON DIVIDED STREETS, CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS
Sections:
10.30.010 Driving on divided streets.
10.30.020 Controlled-access roads and use thereof.
10.30.030 Illegal use of the passing lane-Definitions-Penalty
10.30.010 Driving on divided streets.
A. Whenever any street or highway has been divided into separate roadways by
leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing
section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle shall be
driven only upon the right-hand roadway, unless directed or permitted by official
traffic-control devices to use another roadway.
B. No vehicle shall be driven over, across or within any dividing space, barrier
or section, except through an opening in such physical barrier or dividing section
or space or at a crossover or intersection as established, unless specifically
prohibited by official signs and markings, or by the provisions of Section 10.21.060.
However, this subsection does not prohibit a left-turn across a median island
formed by standard pavement markings or other mountable or traversable devices
as prescribed in State Traffic Control Manual when such movement can be made
in safety and without interfering with, impeding, or endangering other traffic
lawfully using the highway.
C. Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a Class 3 traffic
offense. (Ord. O-77-86 § 20, 1977; Ord. O-75-96 § 35, 1975; Ord. O-74-44
§ 1 (part), 1974).
10.30.020 Controlled-access roads and use thereof.
A. No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled-access roadway
except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.
B. Whenever an acceleration lane has been provided in conjunction with a ramp
entering a controlled-access highway, and the ramp intersection is not designated
or signed as a stop or yield intersection as provided in Section 10.09.020 of
this title, drivers may use the acceleration lanes to attain a safe speed for
merging with through traffic when conditions permit such acceleration with safety;
provided that traffic so merging shall be obligated to signal its intention
to change lanes and to make such lane changes only when the driver has ascertained
that such lane changes can be made with safety.
C. Whenever a deceleration lane has been provided in conjunction with a ramp
leaving a controlled-access highway, drivers shall use such lane to slow to
a safe speed for making an exit turn after leaving the main stream of traffic.
D. Pedestrians, bicyclists or other nonmotorized traffic, or any person operating
a motor-driven cycle, shall not use any controlled-access roadway described
in traffic-control schedules when official signs are erected on or at entrances
to any such roadway giving notice thereof.
E. The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder or roadway
of any controlled-access highway.
F. Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a Class 3 traffic
offense. Ord. O-94-34 § 6, 1994; Ord. O-75-96 § 36, 1975; Ord. O-74-44
§ 1 (part), 1974).
10.30.030 Illegal use of the passing lane-Definitions-Penalty
A. A person shall not drive a motor vehicle in the passing lane of a highway
if the speed limit is sixty-five miles per hour or more unless such person is
passing other motor vehicles that are in a nonpassing lane or turning left,
or unless the volume of traffic does not permit the motor vehicle to safely
merge into a nonpassing lane.
B. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Nonpassing lane" means any lane that is to the right of the passing
lane if there are two or more adjacent lanes of traffic moving in the same direction
in one roadway.
2. "Passing lane" means the farthest to the left lane if there are
two or more adjacent lanes of traffic moving in the same direction in one roadway,
except that if such left lane is restricted to high occupancy vehicle use or
is designed for left turns only, the passing lane shall be the lane immediately
to the right of such high occupancy lane or left-turn lane.
C. A person who violates this section commits a Class 3 traffic offense. (Ord.
O-2005-11 § 2, 2005).
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