0001|                           SENATE BILL 614
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            CISCO MCSORLEY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION; REMOVING THE REQUIREMENT THAT
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0012|     BICYCLE RIDERS USE SIDE PATHS ADJACENT TO ROADWAYS; AMENDING A
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0013|     SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 66-3-705 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1978,
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0017|     Chapter 35, Section 104) is amended to read:
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0018|          "66-3-705.  RIDING ON ROADWAYS AND BICYCLE PATHS.--
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0019|               A.  Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway
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0020|     shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as
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0021|     <s>[praticable]</s> <u>practicable</u>, exercising due care when passing
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0022|     a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
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0023|               B. <s>[Person]</s> <u>Persons</u> riding bicycles upon a
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0024|     roadway shall not ride more than two abreast except on paths or
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0025|     parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
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0001|               <s>[C.  Whenever a usable path for bicycles has been
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<s></s>0002| <s>    provided adjacent to a roadway, bicycle riders shall use such
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<s></s>0003| <s>    path and shall not use the roadway.]</s>"
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0004|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0005|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1997.
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