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HOUSE BILL 369

COMMITTEE: Transportation

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires drivers to obey flagpersons in highway construction or maintenance areas and utility work areas.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

36:1 New Section; Obedience to and Effect of Traffic Laws; Obedience to Flagpersons. Amend RSA 265 by inserting after section 3-a the following new section:

265:3-b Obedience to Flagpersons.

I. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any flagperson in the act of directing, controlling, or regulating traffic within any construction, maintenance, or utility work area indicated by official traffic control devices. If the flagperson is displaying a signal to stop, the driver of a vehicle upon a way shall stop the vehicle at least 25 feet before reaching such flagperson. The driver shall not proceed until the flagperson indicates that traffic may proceed and until the driver may do so safely.

II. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not more than $100 for the first offense and not more than $250 for any subsequent offense committed during any calendar year.

36:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

(Approved: June 8, 2001)

(Effective Date: June 8, 2001)