§ 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.