REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; overtaking bicycles

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

HB 2205

Introduced by

Representative Wilmeth

An Act

amending section 28-735, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to vehicle regulation.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 28-735, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-735. Overtaking bicycles; civil penalties

A. When overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken bicycle.

B. If a person violates this section and the violation results in a collision causing:

1. Serious physical injury as defined in section 13-105 to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars.

2. Death to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars.

C. Subsection B of this section does not apply to if a bicyclist who is injured in a vehicular traffic lane when a designated bicycle lane or path is present and passable.END_STATUTE