8-1520. No-passing zones; designation by secretary of transportation or local authorities; duties of drivers.
8-1520
8-1520. No-passing zones; designation by secretary of transportation
or local authorities; duties of drivers.
(a) The secretary of transportation and local authorities are hereby
authorized to determine those portions of any highway under their
respective jurisdictions where overtaking and passing or driving on the
left side of the roadway would be especially hazardous and by appropriate
signs or markings on the roadway may indicate the beginning and end of such
zones and when such signs or markings are in place and clearly visible to
an ordinarily observant person, every driver of a vehicle shall obey the
directions thereof.
(b) Where signs or markings are in place to define a no-passing zone as
set forth in subsection (a), no driver at any time shall drive on the left
side of the roadway within such no-passing zone or on the left side of any
pavement striping designed to mark such no-passing zone throughout its
length.
(c) This section does not apply under the conditions described in
subsection (a) (2) of K.S.A. 8-1514, nor to the driver of a vehicle turning
left into or from an alley, private road or driveway.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1520; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 20; Aug. 15.