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2019 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 6a - Traffic Code
Part 9 - Right-of-Way
Section 903 - Yield right-of-way -- Vehicle turning left -- Entering or crossing highway other than from another roadway -- Merging lanes.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 41-6a-903 (2019)
Effective 5/12/2015
41-6a-903. Yield right-of-way -- Vehicle turning left -- Entering or crossing highway other than from another roadway -- Merging lanes.
Amended by Chapter 412, 2015 General Session
41-6a-903. Yield right-of-way -- Vehicle turning left -- Entering or crossing highway other than from another roadway -- Merging lanes.
- (1) The operator of a vehicle:
- (a) intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is so close to the turning vehicle as to constitute an immediate hazard;
- (b) about to enter or cross a highway from any place other than another highway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the highway to be entered or crossed; and
- (c) traveling in a lane that is about to merge into a continuing lane, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles traveling in the continuing lane and which are so close as to be an immediate hazard.
- (2) A violation of Subsection (1) is an infraction.
Amended by Chapter 412, 2015 General Session
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