California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 1 - Driving on Right Side

• Section 21650.
  Upon all highways, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in...
• Section 21650.1.
  A bicycle operated on a roadway, or the shoulder of a highway, shall be operated in the same direction as vehicles are required to be...
• Section 21651.
  (a) Whenever a highway has been divided into two or more roadways by means of intermittent barriers or by means of a dividing section of not...
• Section 21651.1.
  (a) The Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, shall update the June 1989 report entitled “Prevention of Wrong-Way Accidents”...
• Section 21652.
  When any service road has been constructed on or along any public highway and the main thoroughfare of the highway has been separated from the...
• Section 21654.
  (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the...
• Section 21655.
  (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation or local authorities with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic...
• Section 21655.1.
  (a) A person shall not operate a motor vehicle on a portion of a highway that has been designated for the exclusive use of public transit...
• Section 21655.5.
  (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may authorize or permit exclusive or preferential use of highway...
• Section 21655.6.
  (a)  Whenever the Department of Transportation authorizes or permits exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles on any highway located within the...
• Section 21655.7.
  A local authority, with respect to any highway under its jurisdiction, may authorize or permit a portion of the highway to be used exclusively for...
• Section 21655.8.
  (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), when exclusive or preferential use lanes for high-occupancy vehicles are established pursuant to Section 21655.5 and double parallel solid...
• Section 21655.9.
  (a) (1) Whenever the Department of Transportation or a local authority authorizes or permits exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes or highway access ramps for high-occupancy...
• Section 21656.
  On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at...
• Section 21657.
  The authorities in charge of any highway may designate any highway, roadway, part of a roadway, or specific lanes upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed...
• Section 21658.
  Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic in one direction, the following rules apply:(a) A vehicle shall be...
• Section 21658.1.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “lane splitting” means driving a motorcycle, as defined in Section 400, that has two wheels in contact with the...
• Section 21659.
  Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes a vehicle shall not be driven in the extreme left lane at any time, nor in...
• Section 21660.
  Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and, except when a roadway has been divided into traffic lanes,...
• Section 21661.
  Whenever upon any grade the width of the roadway is insufficient to permit the passing of vehicles approaching from opposite directions at the point of...
• Section 21662.
  The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or upon mountain highways shall hold the motor vehicle under control at all times...
• Section 21663.
  Except as expressly permitted pursuant to this code, including Sections 21100.4 and 21114.5, no person shall operate or move a motor vehicle upon a sidewalk...
• Section 21664.
  It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to enter or exit any freeway which has full control of access and no crossings at...

Last modified: October 22, 2018