{"data":{"id":"us-ca/veh-21754","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"VEH § 21754","heading":"","body":"The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:\n(a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn.\n(b) Upon a highway within a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles in the direction of travel.\n(c) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width and clearly marked for two or more lines of moving traffic in the direction of travel.\n(d) Upon a one-way street.\n(e) Upon a highway divided into two roadways where traffic is restricted to one direction upon each of such roadways.\nThe provisions of this section shall not relieve the driver of a slow moving vehicle from the duty to drive as closely as practicable to the right hand edge of the roadway.","path":["Vehicle Code - VEH","DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000. - 23336.]","CHAPTER 3. Driving, Overtaking, and Passing [21650. - 21761.]","ARTICLE 3. Overtaking and Passing [21750. - 21761.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"d5f647476d707bab430cd86b2f96b20963edf2dbc5d9b33539bb8b320e595679","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/veh-21753","next":"us-ca/veh-21755"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}