Rhode Island § 31-19-15 § 31-19-15. Left turns.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 31-19-15 — § 31-19-15. Left turns.

Rhode Island § 31-19-15

Title 31Motor and Other vehicles

Ch. 31-19Operation of Bicycles

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-19-15 (2026).

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§ 31-19-15. Left turns.
(a) A person riding a bicycle intending to turn left shall, unless he or she complies
            with the provisions of § 31-16-2, approach the turn in a position as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or
            edge of the roadway. The turn shall be made at a position as close as practicable
            to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway along which the bicyclist intends to
            proceed after turning.
         
(b) If the turn is made at a location where traffic movement is controlled by a police
            officer or by a traffic-control signal, the bicyclist may not proceed after crossing
            the intersecting

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§ 31-19-15. Left turns.

(a) A person riding a bicycle intending to turn left shall, unless he or she complies with the provisions of § 31-16-2, approach the turn in a position as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. The turn shall be made at a position as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway along which the bicyclist intends to proceed after turning.

(b) If the turn is made at a location where traffic movement is controlled by a police officer or by a traffic-control signal, the bicyclist may not proceed after crossing the intersecting roadway until a signal to proceed is given to traffic moving in the appropriate direction on the roadway along which the bicyclist intends to proceed. At all other locations, after turning and before crossing the roadway he or she is leaving, the bicyclist must yield the right-of-way to all traffic approaching on that roadway.

(c) The state highway commission and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may cause official traffic-control devices to be placed and require and direct that a specific course be traveled by turning bicycles, and when the devices are so placed, no person shall turn a bicycle other than as directed and required by the devices.