SENATE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
                  February 13, 2013     SENATE
                Amended 2nd Reading
                     February 12, 2013First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 13-0333.01 Jery Payne x2157     SENATE BILL 13-049
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                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning an exemption within a roundabout from the rule
            requiring a vehicle to signal an intention to leave the
            current lane of travel.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, a person must signal an intention to turn when intending
       to change lanes or turn while driving a vehicle. The bill exempts motor
       vehicles that are within a roundabout.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-1-102, add (85.5)
       as follows:
            42-1-102.  Definitions. As used in articles 1 to 4 of this title,
       unless the context otherwise requires:
            (85.5)  "Roundabout" means a circular intersection where
       road traffic is slowed and flows in one direction around a
       central island to  exit onto one of the intersecting roads.
            SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-903, amend (1),
       (2), and (4) as follows:
            42-4-903.  Turning movements and required signals. (1)  No A
       person shall not turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in
       proper position upon the roadway as required in section 42-4-901, or turn
       a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway, or otherwise turn a vehicle
       from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until
       such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only after
       giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in sections 42-4-608
       and 42-4-609; except that a driver need not use a turn signal, but
       is encouraged to do so, when traveling in a vehicle within a
       roundabout.
            (2)  A signal of intention to turn right or left person shall be given
       signal continuously during not less than the last one hundred feet
       traveled by the vehicle before turning in urban or metropolitan areas and
       shall be given or continuously for at least two hundred feet on all
       four-lane highways and other highways where the prima facie or posted
       speed limit is more than forty miles per hour; Such signals shall be given
       regardless of existing except that a driver need not use a turn
       signal, but is encouraged to do so, when traveling in a vehicle
       within a roundabout. Weather conditions do not change the signal
       requirements.
            (4)  A person shall use the signals provided for in section
       42-4-608 (2) shall be used to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes,
       or start from a parked position; and except that:
            (a)  A person shall not be flashed flash on one side only on a
       parked or disabled vehicle or flashed as a courtesy or "do pass" signal to
       operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear; and
            (b)  A driver need not use a turn signal, but is encouraged
       to do so, when traveling in a vehicle within a roundabout.
            SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
       applicability. (1)  This act takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following
       the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the
       general assembly (August 7, 2013, if adjournment sine die is on May 8,
       2013); except that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1
       (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act or an item, section,
       or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part
       will not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election
       to be held in November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the
       date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
            (2)  This act applies to acts committed on or after the applicable
       effective date of this act.