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2019 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 6a - Traffic Code
Part 7 - Driving on Right Side of Highway and Passing
Section 706.5 - Definitions -- Operation of motor vehicle near a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited -- Endangering a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 41-6a-706.5 (2019)
Effective 5/14/2019
41-6a-706.5. Definitions -- Operation of motor vehicle near a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited -- Endangering a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited.
Amended by Chapter 428, 2019 General Session
Amended by Chapter 461, 2019 General Session
41-6a-706.5. Definitions -- Operation of motor vehicle near a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited -- Endangering a vulnerable user of a highway prohibited.
- (1) As used in this section, "vulnerable user of a highway" means:
- (a) a pedestrian, including a person engaged in work upon a highway or upon utilities facilities along a highway or providing emergency services within the right-of-way of a highway;
- (b) a person riding an animal; or
- (c) a person operating any of the following on a highway:
- (i) a farm tractor or implement of husbandry, without an enclosed shell;
- (ii) a skateboard;
- (iii) roller skates;
- (iv) in-line skates;
- (v) a bicycle;
- (vi) an electric-assisted bicycle;
- (vii) an electric personal assistive mobility device;
- (viii) a moped;
- (ix) a motor assisted scooter;
- (x) a motor-driven cycle;
- (xi) a motorcycle; or
- (xii) a manual wheelchair.
- (2) An operator of a motor vehicle may not knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly:
- (a) operate a motor vehicle within three feet of a vulnerable user of a highway;
- (b) distract or attempt to distract a vulnerable user of a highway for the purpose of causing violence or injury to the vulnerable user of a highway;
- (c) force or attempt to force a vulnerable user of a highway off of the roadway for a purpose unrelated to public safety; or
- (d) cause a motor vehicle to emit an excessive amount of exhaust in a manner that distracts or endangers a vulnerable user of a highway.
- (3)
- (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), a violation of Subsection (2) is an infraction.
- (b) A violation of Subsection (2) that results in bodily injury to the vulnerable user of a highway is a class C misdemeanor.
Amended by Chapter 428, 2019 General Session
Amended by Chapter 461, 2019 General Session
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