28-645. Traffic control signal legend
A. If traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting different colored
lights or colored lighted arrows successively one at a time or in combination, only the
colors green, red and yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals
carrying a word legend. The lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and
pedestrians as follows:
1. Green indication:
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a green signal may proceed straight through or turn
right or left unless a sign at that place prohibits either turn. Vehicular traffic,
including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles
and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time
the signal is exhibited.
(b) Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown alone or in combination
with another indication, may cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement
indicated by such arrow or such other movement as is permitted by other indications shown
at the same time. Vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully
within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
(c) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in section
28-646, pedestrians facing any green signal, except if the sole green signal is a turn
arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
2. Steady yellow indication:
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal is warned by the signal that
the related green movement is being terminated or that a red indication will be exhibited
immediately thereafter when vehicular traffic shall not enter the intersection.
(b) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in section
28-646, pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal are advised by the signal that there is
insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and a pedestrian
shall not then start to cross the roadway.
3. Red indication:
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this paragraph, vehicular
traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before entering the intersection and
shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown. On receipt of a record of
judgment for a violation of this subdivision or an act in another jurisdiction that if
committed in this state would be a violation of this section, the department shall order
the person to attend and successfully complete traffic survival school training and
educational sessions within sixty days after the department issues the
order. Notwithstanding section 28-3315, if the person fails to attend or successfully
complete traffic survival school training and educational sessions, the department shall
suspend the person's driving privilege pursuant to section 28-3306 until the person
attends and successfully completes traffic survival school training and educational
sessions. A person whose driving privilege is suspended pursuant to this subdivision may
request a hearing. If the person requests a hearing, the department shall conduct the
hearing as prescribed in section 28-3306. A law enforcement officer or a jurisdiction
issuing a citation to a person who violates this subdivision shall provide written notice
to the person that if eligible, the person may attend defensive driving school or, if not
eligible or if the person chooses not to attend defensive driving school and is convicted
or enters a plea of responsible for a violation of this subsection, the person must
attend and successfully complete traffic survival school training and educational
sessions. The notice shall include a reference to red light violations and state that if
the person is required to attend traffic survival school the person will receive notice
from the motor vehicle division.
(b) The driver of a vehicle that is stopped in obedience to a red signal and as
close as practicable at the entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection, or if there is no crosswalk, then at the entrance to the intersection, may
make a right turn but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic
proceeding as directed by the signal. A right turn may be prohibited against a red signal
at any intersection if a sign prohibiting the turn is erected at the intersection.
(c) The driver of a vehicle on a one-way street that intersects another one-way
street on which traffic moves to the left shall stop in obedience to a red signal but may
then make a left turn into the one-way street. The driver shall yield the right-of-way to
pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection,
except that such left turn may be prohibited if a sign prohibiting the turn is erected at
the intersection.
(d) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in section
28-646, a pedestrian facing a steady red signal alone shall not enter the roadway.
B. If an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other
than an intersection, this section applies except as to those provisions of this section
that by their nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign
or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of
a sign or marking the stop shall be made at the signal.
C. The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection that has an official traffic
control signal that is inoperative shall bring the vehicle to a complete stop before
entering the intersection and may proceed with caution only when it is safe to do so. If
two or more vehicles approach an intersection from different streets or highways at
approximately the same time and the official traffic control signal for the intersection
is inoperative, the driver of each vehicle shall bring the vehicle to a complete stop
before entering the intersection and the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield
the right-of-way to the driver of the vehicle on the right.
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