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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3257
Introduced by Assembly Member Boerner
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February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 21650 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3257, as introduced, Boerner.
Vehicles: driving on the right side.
Existing law sets forth the rules of the road, and regulates driving, overtaking, and passing. Existing law requires a vehicle to be driven on the right half of the roadway of a highway, except as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote:
MAJORITY
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
NO
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21650 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:21650.
(a) Upon all highways, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:(a)
(1) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing that movement.
(b)
(2) When placing a vehicle in a lawful position for, and when the vehicle is lawfully making, a left turn.
(c)
(3) When the right half of a roadway is closed to traffic under construction or repair.
(d)
(4) Upon a roadway restricted to one-way traffic.
(e)
(5) When the roadway is not of sufficient width.
(f)
(6) When the vehicle is necessarily traveling so slowly as to impede the normal movement of traffic, that portion of the highway adjacent to the right edge of the roadway may be utilized temporarily when in a condition
permitting safe operation.
(g)
(b) This section does not prohibit the operation of bicycles on any shoulder of a highway, on any sidewalk, on any bicycle path within a highway, or along any crosswalk or bicycle path crossing, where the operation is not otherwise prohibited by this code or local ordinance.
(h)
(c) This section does not
prohibit the operation of a transit bus on the shoulder of a state highway in conjunction with the implementation of a program authorized pursuant to Section 148.1 of the Streets and Highways Code on state highways within the areas served by the transit services of the Monterey-Salinas Transit District or the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.