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SB315: requiring motorists to give wide berth to highway maintenance vehicles.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2012 SB315
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Committee
HOUSE Transportation
Hearing
03/27/2012 at 01:00 PM
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Transportation

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CHAPTER 135

SB 315 – FINAL VERSION

02/08/12 0497s

2012 SESSION

12-2972

03/01

SENATE BILL 315

AN ACT requiring motorists to give wide berth to highway maintenance vehicles.

SPONSORS: Sen. Rausch, Dist 19; Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Stiles, Dist 24; Sen. Kelly, Dist 10; Rep. Packard, Rock 3; Rep. Graham, Hills 18; Rep. Campbell, Hills 24

COMMITTEE: Transportation

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires motorists to give wide berth to highway workers and stationary or moving highway maintenance vehicles displaying amber warning lights.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/08/12 0497s

12-2972

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT requiring motorists to give wide berth to highway maintenance vehicles.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

135:1 Highway Maintenance Vehicles. Amend RSA 265:6-a, II to read as follows:

II. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle obviously and actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays emergency lights or amber warning lights as authorized under RSA 266:78-a through RSA 266:78-q and shall give wide berth, without endangering oncoming traffic, to highway workers and stationary or moving vehicles owned by or contracted to state or local highway maintenance departments displaying amber warning lights.

135:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 5, 2012

Effective Date: June 5, 2012