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ENROLLED Regular Session HOUSE BILL NO.
HCAHB723 4877 2773 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session AmendmentsproposedbyHouseCommitteeonTransportation,HighwaysandPublicWorks to Original House Bill No.
723 BY REPRESENTATIVE HORTON AN ACT Toamendand reenactR.S.
723 by Representative Horton AMENDMENT NO.
32:232(3)(a),(b),(e),(f),and(g)andtoenactR.S.32:232(3)(h), relative to driver compliance with traffic-control signals;
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to authorize the driver of a two or three-wheeledmotorcycle, moped, or bicycle or electric bicycle to proceed through an intersection controlled bya vehicle-actuated traffic-control signal under certain circumstances;
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and to provide for related matters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
Section1.
R.S.
32:232(3)(a),(b), (e), (f), and (g) areherebyamendedandreenacted and R.S.
32:232(3)(h) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
§232.
Traffic-control signals Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights, or colored lighted arrows, successively one at a time or in combination, onlythe colors green, red, and yellow shall be used, except for special pedestriansignals carrying a word legend, and said lights shall indicateand applyto drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
* * * (3) Steady RED indication:
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, or if none, then before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown except as provided in Subparagraph (c) and (e) of this Paragraph.
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HB NO.
723 ENROLLED (b) Vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow signal shall not enter the intersection to make the movement indicated by the arrow and, unless entering the intersection to make a movement permitted byanother signal, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, or if none, then before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain standing until an indication permittingthe movement indicated bysuch red arrowis shown except as provided in Subparagraph (c) and (e) of this Paragraph.
* * * (e)(i) Notwithstanding anyother provision of law to the contrary, including thisParagraph,ifthedriverofatwoorthree-wheeledmotorcycle,moped,orbicycle or any electric bicycle approaches an intersection influenced by a vehicle-actuated control, the driver may proceed through the intersection on a steady red light only if the driver does all of the following:
(aa) Comesto,andmaintains,afullandcompletestop attheintersectionfor two complete cycles of the traffic-control signal or for two minutes, whichever occurs first.
(bb) Treats the traffic control device as a stop sign.
(cc) Determines it is safe to proceed.
(dd) Yields the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk.
(ee) Yields the right-of-way to the driver of any vehicle approaching an intersection from either direction.
(ii) ForpurposesofthisSubparagraph,thefollowingdefinitionsshallapply:
(aa) "Cycle"means the total time to complete one sequence of signalization for all movements at an intersection.
In a vehicle-actuated controller system, the cycle is a complete sequence of all signal indications.
(bb) "Vehicle-actuated control" means a system that manages the signal through automaticallymovingvehicles.
The actuatedsignaltimingis influencedby traffic demand, and it is detected through sensors at all the approaches.
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723 ENROLLED complete cycles of a traffic-control signal constitutes being vehicle-actuated influenced.
(e) (f) Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Section to the contrary,forredindications orsignalinfractions,iftheviolationresultsintheinjury of another person, the offender shall be fined notless than two hundred dollars nor morethanfivehundreddollarsandmaybesubjectedtoadriver'slicensesuspension for a period of ninety days, or both.
(f) (g) If the violation results in the serious bodily injury of another person, the offender shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
The offender may also be subjected to a driver's license suspension for a period of one hundred eighty days.
(g) (h) If the violation results in the death of another person, the offender shallbefinednotlessthanonethousanddollarsnormorethanfivethousanddollars, imprisoned for not morethanone year,or both.
The offendermayalso be subjected to a driver's license suspension for a period of up to three hundred sixty-five days.
* * * SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA APPROVED:
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