Act No. 114

(H.540)

Motor vehicles; vulnerable users; passing; crowding; bicycles;
lane usage; hand signals; nighttime equipment

This act:

(1) Establishes a definition of "vulnerable user" that includes pedestrians; highway and agricultural equipment operators; persons operating wheelchairs and other personal mobility devices; bicyclists and other operators of nonmotorized means of transport; and persons riding, driving, or herding animals.

(2) Requires the drivers of motor vehicles to exercise due care (which includes increasing clearance) when approaching and passing vulnerable users and repeals current pedestrian passing standards.

(3) Prohibits operators of motor vehicles from crowding a vulnerable user and from throwing any object or substance at a vulnerable user.

(4) Authorizes bicyclists to use their right hands when signaling right-hand turns.

(5) Lists circumstances under which bicyclists must use left lanes.

(6) Requires bicyclists at night to use rear red lights or reflective rear-facing material or reflectors or both totaling at least 20 square inches.

Date Signed by the Governor:  May 20, 2010

Effective Date:  July 1, 2010