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WY Stat § 31-5-224 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-224 - Operation of Vehicles Upon Approach of Authorized Emergency Vehicles and Other Parked or Slow-Moving Vehicles.

31-5-224. Operation of vehicles upon approach of authorized emergency vehicles and other parked or slow-moving vehicles.| (a) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual signals meeting the requirements of W.S. 31-5-928 and 31-5-952, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in that position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer. When an authorized emergency vehicle making use of any visual signals provided for in W.S. 31-5-928(d) is parked, the driver of every other vehicle, as soon as it is safe:  (i) When driving on an interstate highway or other highway with two (2) or more lanes traveling in the direction of the emergency vehicle, shall merge into the lane farthest from the emergency vehicle or at least one (1) lane of traffic apart from the emergency vehicle, except when otherwise directed by a police officer;  (ii) When driving on a two (2) lane road with a posted speed limit of forty-five (45) miles per hour or greater, shall slow to a speed that is twenty (20) miles per hour less than the posted speed limit, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.  (b) When an authorized municipal, public utility or highway construction or maintenance vehicle is stopped or is moving at less than twenty (20) miles per hour on or within three (3) feet of a roadway and is making use of any visual signals provided for in W.S. 31-5-928(d), (f)(ii), (h) or 31-5-930, the driver of every other vehicle, as soon as it is safe:  (i) When driving on an interstate highway or other highway with two (2) or more lanes traveling in the same direction of the municipal, public utility or highway construction or maintenance vehicle, shall merge into the lane farthest from the vehicle or at least one (1) lane of traffic apart from the vehicle except when otherwise directed by a police officer;  (ii) When driving on a two (2) lane road with a posted speed limit of forty-five (45) miles per hour or greater, shall slow to a speed that is twenty (20) miles per hour less than the posted speed limit, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.  (c) This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, municipal, public utility or highway construction or maintenance vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.  (d) For purposes of this section, "public utility" means as defined in W.S. 37-1-101(a)(vi).
WY Stat § 31-5-225 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-225 - Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Police Officers; Penalty.

31-5-225. Fleeing or attempting to elude police officers; penalty.| (a) Any driver of a motor vehicle who willfully fails or refuses to bring his vehicle to a stop, or who otherwise flees or attempts to elude a pursuing police vehicle, when given visual or audible signal to bring the vehicle to a stop, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The signal given by the police officer may be by hand, voice, emergency light or siren. The officer giving the signal shall be in uniform, prominently displaying his badge of office, and his vehicle shall be appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.  (b) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, every person convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.  (c) A driver commits aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer if:  (i) The driver has previously been convicted of fleeing or eluding a police officer under either subsection (a) of this section or this subsection; or  (ii) In the course of committing a violation under subsection (a) of this section the driver:  (A) Attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to any other person; or  (B) Causes property damage to the property of any other person in an amount exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00).  (d) Every person convicted of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or both.
WY Stat § 31-5-226 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-226 - Limitations on Backing.

31-5-226. Limitations on backing.| (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the vehicle unless the movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic.  (b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the vehicle upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access highway.
WY Stat § 31-5-227 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-227 - Driving Through Defiles or Canyons or on Mountain Highways.

31-5-227. Driving through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways.| The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold the motor vehicle under control and as near the right-hand edge of the highway as reasonably possible and, except when driving entirely to the right of the center of the roadway, shall give audible warning with the horn of the motor vehicle upon approaching any curve where the view is obstructed within a distance of two hundred (200) feet along the highway.
WY Stat § 31-5-228 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-228 - Loads on Vehicles.

31-5-228. Loads on vehicles.| No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom. This section does not prohibit the necessary spreading of any substance in highway maintenance or construction operations.
WY Stat § 31-5-229 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-229 - Reckless Driving.

31-5-229. Reckless driving.| Any person who drives any vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving.
WY Stat § 31-5-230 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-230 - Coasting.

31-5-230. Coasting.| (a) The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a downgrade shall not coast with the gears or transmission of the vehicle in neutral.  (b) The driver of a truck or bus when traveling upon a downgrade shall not coast with the clutch disengaged.
WY Stat § 31-5-231 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-231 - Following Fire Apparatus.

31-5-231. Following fire apparatus.| The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred (500) feet or stop the vehicle within five hundred (500) feet of any fire apparatus stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
WY Stat § 31-5-232 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-232 - Driving Over Fire Hose.

31-5-232. Driving over fire hose.| No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private road or driveway to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command.
WY Stat § 31-5-236 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-236 - Careless Driving.

31-5-236. Careless driving.| Any person who drives any vehicle in a manner inconsistent with the exercise of due and diligent care normally exercised by a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances and where such operation of a motor vehicle creates an unreasonable risk of harm to other persons or property is guilty of careless driving.
WY Stat § 31-5-237 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 2 - Operation of Vehicles Generally|Section 31-5-237 - Use of Handheld Electronic Wireless Communication Devices for Electronic Messaging Prohibited; Exceptions; Penalties.

31-5-237. Use of handheld electronic wireless communication devices for electronic messaging prohibited; exceptions; penalties.| (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public street or highway while using a handheld electronic wireless communication device to write, send or read a text-based communication. This section shall not apply to a person who is using a handheld electronic wireless communication device:  (i) While the vehicle is lawfully parked;  (ii) To contact an emergency response vehicle;  (iii) To write, read, select or enter a telephone number or name in an electronic wireless communications device for the purpose of making or receiving a telephone call; or  (iv) When using voice operated or hands free technology.  (b) This section shall not apply to a person operating an emergency response vehicle while making communications necessary to the performance of his official duties as an emergency responder.  (c) Any person who operates a motor vehicle in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seventy-five dollars ($75.00).  (d) As used in this section:  (i) "Electronic wireless communication device" means a mobile communication device that uses short-wave analog or digital radio transmissions or satellite transmissions between the device and a transmitter to permit wireless telephone communications to and from the user of the device within a specified area;  (ii) "Emergency response vehicle" means any ambulance, fire department, law enforcement or civil defense vehicle or other vehicle used primarily for emergency purposes;  (iii) "Voice operated or hands free technology" means technology that allows a user to write, send or read a text based communication without the use of either hand except to activate, deactivate or initiate a feature or function;  (iv) "Write, send or read a text-based communication" means using an electronic wireless communications device to manually communicate with any person using text-based communication including, but not limited to, communications referred to as a text message, instant message or electronic mail.
WY Stat § 31-5-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 3 - Speed Regulations|Section 31-5-302 - Establishment of Specific Maximum Speed Limits by Superintendent.

31-5-302. Establishment of specific maximum speed limits by superintendent.| Whenever the superintendent determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, or in the event of a vehicle or weather emergency, that a maximum speed greater or less than that authorized herein is safe and reasonable under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of the state highway system, the superintendent, except as provided for in W.S. 31-5-303(b), may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereat, which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected and which shall not exceed eighty (80) miles per hour on interstate highways. The maximum speed limit may be declared to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon the signs and differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of vehicles, varying weather conditions, and other factors bearing on safe speeds, which shall be effective when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. This section does not grant power to the superintendent to declare statewide or countywide maximum speed limits but grants power to declare maximum speed limits for the public safety in localized geographic areas.
WY Stat § 31-5-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 3 - Speed Regulations|Section 31-5-303 - Establishing Maximum Speed Limits by Local Authorities.

31-5-303. Establishing maximum speed limits by local authorities.| (a) Repealed By Laws 2002, Ch. 68, § 2.  (b) In compliance with rules promulgated by the department, local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may determine the proper maximum speed for all streets and highways within their respective corporate jurisdiction which maximum speed is reasonable and safe and which may be greater or less than the maximum speed permitted under this act. The rules promulgated by the department shall adopt standards consistent with national practices.  (c) Any altered limit established under this section shall be effective during hours of darkness or at other times as may be determined when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the street or highway.  (d) Any alteration of maximum limits on state highways or extensions thereof in a municipality by local authorities is not effective until the alteration has been approved by the superintendent.  (e) Not more than six (6) alterations authorized under this section shall be made per mile along a street or highway, except in the case of reduced limits at intersections, and the difference between adjacent limits shall not be more than fifteen (15) miles per hour.
WY Stat § 31-5-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 3 - Speed Regulations|Section 31-5-304 - Minimum Speed Limits.

31-5-304. Minimum speed limits.| (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.  (b) Whenever the superintendent determines on the basis of an engineering and a traffic investigation that slow speeds on any part of a highway consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the superintendent may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which no person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law and that limit is effective when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. A local authority may make the determination permitted under this subsection by complying with rules adopted by the department for this purpose, which rules shall adopt standards consistent with national practices.  (c) Notwithstanding any minimum speed that may be authorized and posted pursuant to this section, no person shall operate a vehicle in the extreme left-hand lane of a controlled-access highway for a prolonged period in a manner which impedes the flow of other traffic traveling at a lawful rate of speed.
WY Stat § 31-5-305 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 3 - Speed Regulations|Section 31-5-305 - Special Speed Limit at Bridges and Other Elevated Structures.

31-5-305. Special speed limit at bridges and other elevated structures.| (a) No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to the bridge or structure when the structure is signposted as provided in this section.  (b) The superintendent and local authorities on highways under their respective jurisdictions may conduct an investigation of any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway, and if he or they find that the structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this act, the superintendent or local authorities shall determine and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which the structure can safely withstand and shall cause or permit suitable signs stating the maximum speed to be erected and maintained before each end of the structure.  (c) Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of this section, proof of the determination of the maximum speed by the superintendent and the existence of the signs constitutes conclusive evidence of the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to the bridge or structure.
WY Stat § 31-5-306 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 3 - Speed Regulations|Section 31-5-306 - Charging Violations; Burden of Proving Proximate Cause.

31-5-306. Charging violations; burden of proving proximate cause.| (a) In every charge of violation of any speed regulation in this act except a charge under W.S. 31-5-301(a) the complaint, also the summons or notice to appear, shall specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, also the maximum speed applicable within the district or at the location.  (b) The provision of this act declaring maximum speed limitations shall not be construed to relieve the plaintiff in any action from the burden of proving negligence on the part of the defendant as the proximate cause of an accident.
WY Stat § 31-5-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 4 - Traffic-Control Devices|Section 31-5-401 - Duty of Local Authorities to Place and Maintain.

31-5-401. Duty of local authorities to place and maintain.| Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices upon highways under their jurisdiction as they deem necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this act or local traffic ordinances or to regulate, warn or guide traffic. All traffic-control devices hereafter erected shall conform to the state manual and specifications.
WY Stat § 31-5-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 4 - Traffic-Control Devices|Section 31-5-402 - Obedience to Devices; Exceptions.

31-5-402. Obedience to devices; exceptions.| (a) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed or held in accordance with this act unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this act.  (b) No provision of this act for which official traffic-control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required, the section is effective even though no signs are erected or in place.  (c) Whenever official traffic-control devices are placed or held in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this act, the devices are presumed to have been so placed or held by the official act or direction of lawful authority unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.  (d) Any official traffic-control device placed or held pursuant to the provisions of this act and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to the devices is presumed to comply with the requirements of this act unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
WY Stat § 31-5-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 4 - Traffic-Control Devices|Section 31-5-404 - Pedestrian-Control Signals.

31-5-404. Pedestrian-control signals.| (a) Whenever special pedestrian-control signals exhibiting the symbols or words "Walk" or "Don't Walk" are in place the signals shall indicate as follows:  (i) Flashing or steady walk: Any pedestrian facing the signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal and every driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to him;  (ii) Flashing or steady don't walk: No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of the signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island while the don't walk signal is showing.
WY Stat § 31-5-405 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 4 - Traffic-Control Devices|Section 31-5-405 - Flashing Signals.

31-5-405. Flashing signals.| (a) Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used with or in a traffic sign or signal it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows:  (i) Flashing Red (Stop Signal): When a red lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering it, and the right to proceed is subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign;  (ii) Flashing Yellow (Caution Signal): When a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through the intersection or past the signal only with caution.  (b) This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by the rules provided by W.S. 31-5-510.
WY Stat § 31-5-406 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 31 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways|Article 4 - Traffic-Control Devices|Section 31-5-406 - Display of Unauthorized Signs; Advertising on Traffic Signs.

31-5-406. Display of unauthorized signs; advertising on traffic signs.| (a) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal.  (b) No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway any official traffic-control device bearing thereon any commercial advertising except for business signs included as a part of official motorist service panels or roadside information panels approved by the highway department.  (c) This section does not prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.  (d) Every prohibited sign, signal or marking is a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway may remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.