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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2054 By: McCall
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to motor vehicles; amending 47 O.S.
2011, Section 11-309, as last amended by Section 1,
Chapter 184, O.S.L. 2018 (47 O.S. Supp. 20 20, Section
11-309), which relates to driving on roadways laned
for traffic; establishing traffic regulations for
highways; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 47 O.S. 2011, Section 11 -309, as
last amended by Section 1, Chapter 184, O.S. L. 2018 (47 O.S. Supp.
2020, Section 11-309), is amended to read as follows:
Section 11-309. Whenever any roadway highway has been divided
into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic, the following
requirements in addition to all others consistent herewith shall
apply.
1. A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely
within a single lane.
2. A vehicle shall not be moved from the lane until the driver
has first ascertained that the movement can be made with safety and
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then given a signal, not less than the last one hundred (100) feet
traveled by the vehicle, of his intention to change lanes.
3. Upon a roadway highway which is divided into three lanes, a
vehicle shall not be driven in the center lane except when
overtaking and passing another vehicle where the roadway highway is
clearly visible and the center lane is clear of traffic within a
safe distance, or in preparation for a left turn or where the c enter
lane is at the time allocated exclusively to traffic moving in the
direction the vehicle is proceeding and is signposted to give notice
of the allocation.
4. A two-way left-turn lane is a lane near the center of the
highway set aside for use by vehi cles making left turns in both
directions from or into the roadway highway. Two-way left-turn
lanes shall be designated by distinctive roadway highway markings
consisting of parallel double yellow lines, interior line dashed and
exterior line solid, on ea ch side of the lane. A vehicle shall not
be driven in a designated two -way left-turn lane except when
preparing for or making a left turn from or into a roadway highway.
Vehicles turning left from the roadway highway shall not be driven
in the two-way left-turn lane for more than two hundred (200) feet
while preparing for and making the turn. A vehicle turning left
onto the roadway highway may utilize the two-way left-turn lane as a
staging area by stopping and waiting for traffic proceeding in the
same direction to clear before merging into the adjacent lanes of
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travel. A left turn shall not be made from any other lane where a
two-way left-turn lane has been designated. Provided, however, this
section shall not prohibit driving across a two -way left-turn lane
when moving from a service drive onto such marked roadway highway.
5. A vehicle shall not be driven in the left lane of a roadway
highway except when overtaking and passing another vehicle;
provided, however, this paragraph shall not prohibit driv ing in the
left lane when traffic conditions, flow or road configuration, such
as the potential of merging traffic, require the use of the left
lane to maintain safe traffic conditions; provided further, this
paragraph shall not prohibit driving in the lef t lane of a roadway
highway within the city limits of a municipality as long as such
roadway highway is not part of the National System of Interstate and
Defense Highways.
6. Official signs may be erected directing slow -moving traffic
to use a designated lane or designating those lanes to be used by
traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center of
the roadway highway, and drivers of vehicles shall obey the
directions of every such sign.
Any person convicted of violating any provision of this section
shall be punished as provided for in Section 17 -101 of this title.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6962 JBH 12/22/20