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Revised Statutes
TITLE 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation
RS 32:72 - Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions
LA Rev Stat § 32:72 (2016) What's This?
§72. Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions
Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in each direction each driver shall give to the other at least one-half of the main traveled portion of the roadway as nearly as possible.
Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
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