HOUSE
       Amended 2nd Reading
                     January 23, 2009First Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                  ENGROSSED
               This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted
             on Second Reading in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 09-0227.01 Jery Payne           HOUSE BILL 09-1042
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Merrifield,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Transportation & Energy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a prohibition on a slow-moving motor vehicle
            impeding highway traffic.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Prohibits a person driving a motor vehicle from impeding the flow
       of more than 5 motor vehicles following immediately behind.  Requires
       an impeder to drive in the right-hand lane or pull off the road and let the
       others pass where pulling off is safe and lawful.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  42-4-1103 (1), the introductory portion to
       42-4-1103 (3), and 42-4-1103 (3) (b), Colorado Revised Statutes, are
       amended to read:
            42-4-1103.  Minimum speed regulation.  (1)  No person shall
       drive a motor vehicle on any highway at such a slow speed as to impede
       or block the normal and reasonable forward movement of traffic, Except
       when a reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of such the motor
       vehicle or in compliance with law, no person shall drive a motor
       vehicle on a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block
       the normal and reasonable forward movement of:
            (a)  Traffic; and
            (b)  Five or more motor vehicles following immediately
       behind.
            (3)  Notwithstanding any minimum speed that may be authorized
       and or posted pursuant to this section, if any person drives a motor
       vehicle on a highway outside an incorporated area or on any
       controlled-access highway at a speed less than the normal and reasonable
       speed of traffic under the conditions then and there existing and by so
       driving at such slower speed impedes or retards the normal and
       reasonable movement of vehicular traffic following immediately behind,
       then such in violation of subsection (1) of this section, the driver
       shall:
            (b)  Pull off the roadway at the first available place where such
       movement can safely and lawfully be made until such impeded traffic has
       passed by; except that, this paragraph (b) shall not apply to a
       commercial vehicle unless such place is at least twelve feet
       wide.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
       applicability.  (1)  This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day
       following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment
       of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a referendum
       petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state constitution,
       (August 4, 2009, if adjournment sine die is on May 6, 2009); except that,
       if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item, section, or part
       of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part, if
       approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.
            (2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to offenses committed on
       or after the applicable effective date of this act.