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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 811.430: Driving on highway divider; exceptions; penalty.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation
  2. 59. Oregon Vehicle Code
  3. Chapter 811 — Rules of the Road for Drivers

(1) A person commits the offense of driving on a highway divider if the person drives a vehicle over, across or within a dividing space, barrier or section that is an intervening space, physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic and that divides a highway into two or more roadways.

      (2) For purposes of this section, a “dividing space” includes pavement markings of solid double yellow lines with yellow cross-hatching between the double yellow lines.

      (3) This section does not apply when the movement of a vehicle that is otherwise prohibited by this section is made:

      (a) At an authorized crossover or intersection; or

      (b) At the specific direction of a road authority.

      (4) The offense described in this section, driving on a highway divider, is a Class B traffic violation.

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