Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 197

MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON DUAL HIGHWAYS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 165 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED, "MOTOR VEHICLES", WITH REFERENCE TO THE OPERATION OF A VEHICLE ACROSS DIVIDING PARKWAYS BETWEEN DUAL HIGHWAYS AND DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 165 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended by Chapter 286 of Volume 45, Laws of Delaware, 1945, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out and repealing all of 5640A. Sec. 102A. thereof, and by substituting and enacting in lieu of the part so stricken out a new 5640A. Sec. 102A. as follows:

5640A. Sec. 102A. Driving Across Dividing Parkways Between Dual Highways; Direction of Traffic Fixed by State Highway Department:--(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle over, upon or across any curb, central dividing parkway, grass plot, or other separation, or dividing line between a dual or multiple lane highway. It is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to make a left turn or a semicircular or U turn on any such dual or multiple lane highway, except, at designated crossovers constructed by the State Highway Department through an opening in said dividing curb, parkway, grass plot, separation or line. It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle on any such divided highway except to the right of the central dividing curb, separation, parkway, grass plot or line, or in the case of a one way highway, except in the direction fixed by the State Highway Department. (2) It shall be unlawful for pedestrians to walk on one way highways of the State as established from time to time by the State Highway Department, except in the direction fixed by said Department.

Approved April 7, 1947.