CHAPTER 135
SB 315 – FINAL VERSION
02/08/12 0497s
2012 SESSION
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
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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