Arizona Laws 28-778. Roundabouts; large trucks; definitions
A. The operator of a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a total length of a least forty feet or a total width of at least ten feet, with due regard for all other traffic, may deviate from the lane in which the operator is driving to the extent necessary to approach and drive through a roundabout.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-778
- Combination of vehicles: means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows but does not include a forklift designed for the purpose of loading or unloading the truck, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Drive: means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Intersection: means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways that join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling on different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. See Arizona Laws 28-601
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Right-of-way: when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for purposes of travel. See Arizona Laws 28-601
B. When approaching or driving through a roundabout, a person who is driving a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the operator who is driving a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a total length of at least forty feet or a total width of at least ten feet through the roundabout at the same time or so closely in time as to present an immediate hazard and shall slow down or stop if necessary to yield. This subsection does not require a person who is driving a vehicle through a roundabout to yield the right-of-way to the operator of a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a total length of at least forty feet or a total width of at least ten feet that is approaching the roundabout.
C. If two vehicles or combination of vehicles each having a total length of at least forty feet or a total width of at least ten feet approach or drive through a roundabout at the same time or so closely in time as to present an immediate hazard, the driver on the right shall yield the right-of-way to the driver on the left and shall slow down or stop if necessary to yield.
D. The director or local jurisdiction, on highways under the applicable jurisdiction, shall post signs at all roundabouts, whether constructed before, on or after October 30, 2023. The signs shall include both of the following:
1. A yield sign before the roundabout entrance.
2. A sign, as outlined in subsection E of this section, before the roundabout entrance.
E. The department shall:
1. Design a uniform and standard sign to convey the information that large trucks have the right-of-way or that vehicles should yield to large trucks in a roundabout.
2. Develop a uniform standard by which the sign is to be displayed along with the standard yield sign.
F. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Collector street" means a street that serves or is intended to serve as the principal traffic way between large and separated areas or districts and that is the main means of access between arterial streets or as otherwise defined in a local jurisdiction’s transportation plan.
2. "Local road" means a street that is usually in a residential area and that provides connectivity between a collector street and an arterial street for local traffic or as otherwise defined in a local jurisdiction’s transportation plan.
3. "Roundabout":
(a) Means a circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.
(b) For the purposes of subsection D of this section, does not include an intersection or junction that is located on a local road or a collector street.