Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Passing of
buses. A vehicle may pass a bus receiving or discharging passengers only
when:
(1)
The
bus is receiving or discharging passengers at a bus stop where a recess allows
the bus to be located off the main roadway.
(2)
The roadway has
been marked to provide two or more lanes of traffic in the same
direction.
(3)
The driver of a vehicle overtaking and passing upon
the left side of a bus that has stopped for the purpose of receiving or
discharging passengers, when such overtaking and passing is permitted, may
proceed only upon exercising due caution for pedestrians.
(B)
Obedience to markers, buttons and signs regulating turns. When authorized
markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection
indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at the same place, no
driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such
indications.
(C)
Obedience to markings, signs, etc. regulating
direction of travel. When markings, signs, barriers or other devices are placed
to designate streets, roadways or parts thereof upon which vehicular traffic
shall proceed in one direction only during one period of the day, no person
shall operate a vehicle in a manner contrary to the direction of such markings,
signs, barriers or other devices.
(D)
Obedience to
stop signs.
(1)
Except when directed to proceed by a law enforcement
officer, a traffic control officer, or a hospital and campus security officer,
every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly
marked stop line, or if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of
the intersection, or if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting street
or roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the
intersecting street or roadway before entering it.
(2)
After having
stopped, the driver shall yield the right of way to any vehicle in the
intersection or approaching on another street or roadway so closely as to
constitute an immediate hazard during the time the driver is moving across or
within the intersection or junction of streets or roadways.
(E)
Obedience to yield signs.
(1)
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall
slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions and, if required
for safety to stop, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, or if none,
before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none,
then at the point nearest the intersecting street or roadway where the driver
has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting street or roadway before
entering it.
(2)
After slowing or stopping, the driver shall yield the
right of way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another
street or roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the
time the driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction of
streets or roadways. Whenever a driver is involved in a collision with a
vehicle in the intersection or junction of streets or roadways, after driving
past a yield sign without stopping, the collision shall be prima-facie evidence
of the driver's failure to yield the right of way.
(F)
Blocking
intersections. No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk
unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or
crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he or she is operating without obstructing
the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic
control signal indication to proceed.
(G)
Damaging curbs,
sidewalks or traffic control devices. Any person having charge of a vehicle who
drives into or against any curbing, sidewalk or traffic control device along a
street or roadway, thereby cracking, breaking or otherwise injuring the same,
and any person who cracks, breaks or otherwise injures or defaces the same in
any manner, shall be responsible for the repair or replacement of the damaged
curb, sidewalk or traffic control device.
(H)
Driving through
or around gate arms. No person shall drive a vehicle through, under or around a
gate arm while such arm is in the guarded position.
(I)
Failure to
control. No person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon a street or
roadway or on any public or private property other than streets or roadways
without exercising reasonable and ordinary control over such
vehicle.
(J)
Speed; assured clear distance.
(1)
Speed limits.
The speed limit on university streets or roadways shall be twenty-five miles
per hour or as posted by official traffic control devices placed by
transportation and parking services upon the basis of engineering and traffic
investigations.
(2)
Slow speed. No person shall operate a vehicle at such
a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of
traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or to comply
with law.
(3)
Assured clear distance. No person shall operate a
motor vehicle in and upon a street or roadway at a speed greater or less than
is reasonable or proper, having due regard for the traffic on and the surface
and width of the street or roadway and any other condition, and no person shall
drive any motor vehicle in and upon a street or roadway at a greater speed than
will permit him or her to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance
ahead.
(K)
Reckless operation on streets, public or private
property. No person shall operate a vehicle on any street or roadway in willful
or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.
Replaces: 3335-21-11
