Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 16-0597.01 Jery Payne x2157     SENATE BILL 16-018
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Merrifield,
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the prohibition on a slow-moving motor vehicle
            impeding highway traffic.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            The bill prohibits a person driving a motor vehicle from impeding
       the flow of more than 5 motor vehicles following immediately behind. An
       impeder must drive in the right-hand lane or pull off the road where it is
       safe and legal to do so and let the others pass.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-1103, amend
       (1) and (3) introductory portion as follows:
            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, a person shall not 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; or
            (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:
            SECTION 2.  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 10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11,
       2016); 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 2016 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 offenses committed on or after the
       applicable effective date of this act.