                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LEFT TURNS BY BICYCLES, ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICES, ELECTRIC
POWER-ASSISTED BICYCLES, AND MOPEDS (§ 46.2-847)

A person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric
power-assisted bicycle, or moped and intending to turn left shall either follow
a course described in § 46.2-846 or make the turn as provided in this section.

A person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric
power-assisted bicycle, or moped and intending to turn left shall approach the
turn as close as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway. After
proceeding across the intersecting roadway, 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 roadway being entered.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Commissioner of
Highways and local authorities, in their respective jurisdictions, may cause
official traffic control devices to be placed at intersections to direct that a
specific course be traveled by turning bicycles, electric personal assistive
mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds. When such
devices are so placed, no person shall turn a bicycle, electric personal
assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped other than
as directed by such devices.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 585, § 46.1-215.1; 1989, c. 727; 2001, c. 834; 2002, c. 254;
2013, cc. 585, 646.