2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-18 - Pedestrians
Section 31-18-16.1 - Failure to stop on red signal for blind person at intersection.


RI Gen L § 31-18-16.1 (2013) What's This?

§ 31-18-16.1 Failure to stop on red signal for blind person at intersection. – Any person who shall violate the provisions of § 31-13-6(3)(i) at an intersection where a pedestrian is crossing or attempting to cross a public street or highway guided by a seeing-eye dog or a hearing-ear signal dog, clearly identified by a yellow harness, which has been trained and educated to guide and assist the pedestrian in traveling upon the public streets, or carrying in a raised or extended position a cane or walking stick which is white in color or white tipped with red, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

History of Section.
(P.L. 1985, ch. 78, § 1.)

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