SESSION ENROLLED VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY ––-- 2022 SESSION CHAPTER E341 An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-905 of the Code of Virginia, relating to bicycles and certain other vehicles;

R[S O362] Approved [SApril 362]11, L2022 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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That § 46.2-905 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

E § 46.2-905.

Riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-asDisted bicAny person operating a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, motorized skateboard or scooter, or moped on a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place under conditions then existing shall ride as close as safely practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway, except under any of the following circumstances:

That § 46.2-905 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-905.

Riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, motorized skateboards or scooters, and mopeds on roadways and bicycle paths.

Any person operating a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, motorized skateboard or scooter, or moped on a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place under conditions then existing shall ride as close as safely practicable to the right cur1.

objects,3. parked or moving vehicles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes that make it unsafe to continue along the right curb or edge;

6When 4.reasonably necessary to avoid conditions including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, parked or moving vehicles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes that make it unsafe to continue along the right curb or edge;

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Persons riding two abreast shall not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic and shall move into a single-file formation as quickly as is practicable when being overtaken from the rear by a faster-moving vehicle.

However, the failure to move into a single-file formation shall not constitute negligence per se in any civil action.