A person may not stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from a person who drives a vehicle unless the person soliciting a ride is faced with an emergency on the roadway, in which case the person may secure a ride to obtain assistance. As added by P. IC Sec. The Indiana department of transportation may by resolution or order entered in its minutes, and local authorities may by ordinance, with respect to any freeway or interstate highway system under their respective jurisdictions, prohibit the use of a highway by pedestrians, bicycles, or other nonmotorized traffic or by a person operating a motor-driven cycle.
The Indiana department of transportation or the local authority adopting a prohibiting regulation shall erect and maintain official signs on the freeway or interstate highway system on which the regulations are applicable.
If signs are erected, a person may not disobey the restrictions stated on the signs. No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any private vehicle. Nothing in this section or this chapter shall be construed so as to prevent any pedestrian from standing on that portion of the highway or roadway, not ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.
Violation of this statute is a scheduled fine in the amount of ten dollars. Kentucky Code Louisiana Pedestrians soliciting rides or business A.
No person shall stand on a public roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the occupant of any vehicle. Maine Hitchhiking Forbidden 1. As used in this section, "hitchhike" means to endeavor by words, gestures or otherwise to beg, invite or secure transportation in a motor vehicle not engaged in carrying passengers for hire, unless the hitchhiker is known to the driver or a passenger.
A person commits a traffic infraction if that person hitchhikes on: A. The traveled portion of a public way; [, c.
A limited access highway, including but not limited to the Maine Turnpike; or [ C. Any portion of a public way during the nighttime. This section does not prohibit solicitation of aid in the event of an accident or by persons who are sick or seeking assistance for the sick, if the sickness is bona fide and an emergency exists. A municipality may regulate or prohibit hitchhiking on a public way by ordinance. The Department of Transportation may regulate or prohibit hitchhiking on a state or state aid highway in the interest of safety at those locations where accidents may be a problem, limited visibility exists or severe traffic conflicts or other safety factors may occur.
An area in which hitchhiking has been regulated or prohibited must be clearly identified by posted signs. For a violation of subsection 2, a forfeiture not to exceed may be adjudged.
Massachusetts Mass A An operator of a vehicle using the turnpike or the metropolitan highway system who refuses to pay the toll prescribed by the authority or who evades or attempts to evade payment of the toll prescribed by the authority may be arrested without a warrant.
Whoever, for the purpose of soliciting a ride on the turnpike or the metropolitan highway system, displays a sign, signals a moving vehicle, causes the stopping of a vehicle or stands on property of the authority in view of a ramp or roadway of the turnpike may be arrested without a warrant and shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. A person damaged in his property by the exercise of any of the powers granted by this chapter may recover his damages from the authority under chapter seventy-nine.
Illegal to hitchhike on turn pikes. Michigan While there is not a state "hitchhiking" law in Michigan, there are several sections of the Michigan Vehicle Code that can apply to hitchhikers as pedestrians.
A pedestrian is defined in section Where sidewalks are not provided, pedestrians shall, when practicable, walk on the left side of the highway facing traffic which passes nearest. Section Finally, section 7. I hope this answers your question. PL , c. The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal advice, please consult a qualified attorney. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced the construction of a barrier at the Embe Bakery on the Fulford Ganges Road that would interfere with the use of a common spot for soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
The R. Minutes of the Salt Spring Island Transportation Commission report that this will happen because there is no safe spot to pull off of the roadway to pick up and drop off passengers at that location. Of the five, two were casualty crashes and three were property damage only.
There is no indication if any of these crashes involved pedestrians or hitchhiking. The simple act of hitchhiking itself is not illegal in B. Being on the roadway to solicit a ride is however. Freeways Schedule One Highways are the exception. Pedestrian are prohibited here unless they are attending to a broken down vehicle. Pedestrians who solicit captive audiences, intimidate or harass resulted in the creation of the Safe Streets Act.
One cannot be on a roadway and solicit a person who is in or on a stopped, standing or parked vehicle. In the Safe Streets Act roadway has a different interpretation. It means a highway, road, street, lane or right of way, including the shoulder of any of them, that is improved, designed or ordinarily used by the general public for the passage of vehicles.
Before we leave pedestrians to examine the duties of drivers, remember that if you are walking alongside the road, you must walk in the direction facing traffic if there is no sidewalk. It is common, and illegal, for hitch hikers to walk along the highway with traffic between times when vehicles are passing.
Stopping and standing to pick up hitchhikers can land a driver in trouble too. There's also slugging , a lower-tech practice that first developed in DC during the s and is still practiced by a few thousand people daily there and in San Francisco.
People who want a ride simply line up at set locations near highways, and drivers pick them up, primarily so they can drive in HOV lanes or avoid paying tolls. Sure, all this is a bit different from someone hitching a ride with their thumb out by the side of the road. But it achieves the same basic benefit of putting otherwise empty seats in cars to use, reducing traffic. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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