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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 300

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Transportation

21-1205.

(a) Each person operating a bicycle on a roadway
shall:

(1)  Ride SHALL RIDE as near to the right side of
the roadway as practicable AND SAFE, except when making or
attempting to make a left turn, when operating on a one-way
street, or when passing a stopped or slower moving vehicle;
[and]

(2)  MAY RIDE TWO ABREAST ONLY IF THE FLOW OF
TRAFFIC IS UNIMPEDED;

(2) Exercise (3) SHALL EXERCISE due care when
passing a vehicle[.]; AND

(3) A BICYCLIST, WHEN DISMOUNTED, IS CONSIDERED
A PEDESTRIAN; HOWEVER, HE MAY REMAIN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF
THE HIGHWAY.

(b) Persons operating bicycles in a public
area OR ON A SHOULDER may not ride more than two abreast.
Persons operating bicycles on a [highway] ROADWAY shall ride
in single file.

(4) MAY WALK A BICYCLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF A
HIGHWAY IF THERE IS NO SIDEWALK.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 14, 1979.

CHAPTER 301

(Senate Bill 1031)

AN ACT concerning

Anne Arundel County-- Immunity for Volunteer Fire
Departments and Ambulance and Rescue Squads

FOR the purpose of extending the certain civil immunity of
volunteer firemen for certain acts to the volunteer