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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 316
STATE UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL
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F.S. 316.074
316.074 Obedience to and required traffic control devices.
(1) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto, placed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter.
(2) No person shall drive any vehicle from a roadway to another roadway to avoid obeying the indicated traffic control indicated by such traffic control device.
(3) No provision of this chapter for which official traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that official traffic control devices are required, such section shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
(4) Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this chapter, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
(5) Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this chapter unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
(6) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving violation as provided in chapter 318.
History.s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 1, ch. 76-31; s. 94, ch. 99-248.
Note.Former s. 316.053.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 316.074
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Civil Citations / Citable Offenses under S316.074
R or S next to points is Mandatory Revocation or Suspension

S316.074 (1) TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE Fail to obey traffic control device (sign) - Points on Drivers License: 3
S316.074 (1) Red Light Camera Violations Only -Fail to obey traffic control signal for procedures see 316.0083 - Points on Drivers License: 0
S316.074 (1) Fail to obey traffic control signal (Failed to stop at traffic signal/red light) - Points on Drivers License: 4
S316.074 (2) Traffic Control Device - Cutting across to avoid - Points on Drivers License: 3


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