Commercial vehicles-passing in inclement weather.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0027

SENATE FILE
NO.

SF0081

Commer
c
i
al vehicles-passing in inclement
weather.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Nutting and Representative(s) Esquibel, K.

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
motor vehicles; prohibiting passing by commercial vehicles as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 31
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5
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203 by creating a new subsection (c) is amended to read:

31
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5
‑
203.

Rules governing overtaking on the left.

(c)

No driver of a commercial vehicle, as defined by W.S. 31
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1
‑
101(
a), shall pass or attempt to pass any noncommercial motor vehicle
on any roadway
having a
n initial
speed limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour or greater when
the speed limit has been lowered

ten (10)
miles per hour
or more
due to inclement weather.
This s
ubsection shall apply only when
the
lowered
speed limit has been posted.

Section 2
.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

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