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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>366275</law_id><section_number>46.2-847</section_number><catch_line>Left turns by bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="101" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Regulation of Traffic</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="7" identifier="5">Turning</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person riding a bicycle, <span class="dictionary">electric personal assistive mobility device</span>, <span class="dictionary">electric power-assisted bicycle</span>, or <span class="dictionary">moped</span> and intending to turn left shall either follow a course described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Required position and method of turning at intersections; local regulations" href="/46.2-846/">46.2-846</a> or make the turn as provided in this section.</p><p>A person riding a bicycle, <span class="dictionary">electric personal assistive mobility device</span>, <span class="dictionary">electric power-assisted bicycle</span>, or <span class="dictionary">moped</span> and intending to turn left shall approach the turn as close as practicable to the right curb or edge of the <span class="dictionary">roadway</span>. After proceeding across the intersecting <span class="dictionary">roadway</span>, the rider shall comply with traffic signs or signals and continue his turn as close as practicable to the right curb or edge of the <span class="dictionary">roadway</span> being entered.</p><p>Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> of <span class="dictionary">Highways</span> and local authorities, in their respective <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span>, may cause official <span class="dictionary">traffic control devices</span> to be placed at <span class="dictionary">intersections</span> to direct that a specific course be traveled by turning bicycles, <span class="dictionary">electric personal assistive mobility devices</span>, <span class="dictionary">electric power-assisted bicycles</span>, and <span class="dictionary">mopeds</span>. When such devices are so placed, no person shall turn a bicycle, <span class="dictionary">electric personal assistive mobility device</span>, <span class="dictionary">electric power-assisted bicycle</span>, or <span class="dictionary">moped</span> other than as directed by such devices.</p></section></text><history>1981, c. 585, &#xA7; 46.1-215.1; 1989, c. 727; 2001, c. 834; 2002, c. 254; 2013, cc. 585, 646.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
