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; August 15.
Notes of Decisions
Ratterree v. Bartlett, 707 P.2d 1063 (Kan. 1985).
· cites it 4× “” The court refused to give the instruction, ruling that: “I read the statute [K.S.A. 8-1520] cited by counsel and I quite honestly don’t think that based on the evidence presented in this case that the statute applies and I don’t think that the statute actually says what the…”
Every v. Jefferson Ins. Co. of NY, 610 P.2d 645 (Kan. Ct. App. 1980).
“That case is distinguishable in Kansas, as the Texas section on no-passing zones (§ 58[b]) differs from our no-passing zone statute (K.S.A. 8-1520) in that Texas permits left turns in a “no-passing zone marked by signs only” whereas the Kansas statute allows left turns in…”
State v. Simpson, 732 P.2d 788 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987).
“8-1566) and passing in a no-passing zone (K.S.A. 8-1520[b]). Simpson was performing his duty as a police officer for the City of St.”
State v. Kotas, 134 P.3d 677 (Kan. Ct. App. 2006).
“” K.S.A. 8-1520(a). Under the 2003 edition of the Federal Highway Administration Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, Section 3B.”
— K.S.A. § 8-1520(a) — 1 case
State v. Kotas, 134 P.3d 677 (Kan. Ct. App. 2006).
“” K.S.A. 8-1520(a). Under the 2003 edition of the Federal Highway Administration Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, Section 3B.”
— K.S.A. § 8-1520(c) — 1 case
Ratterree v. Bartlett, 707 P.2d 1063 (Kan. 1985).
“” The court refused to give the instruction, ruling that: “I read the statute [K.S.A. 8-1520] cited by counsel and I quite honestly don’t think that based on the evidence presented in this case that the statute applies and I don’t think that the statute actually says what the…”
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