§ 21-702. All vehicles to stop at certain railroad crossings  


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  •    (a) Posting of stop sign. -- The State Highway Administration and any local authority with the approval of the State Highway Administration may place a stop sign at any railroad grade crossing of a highway that the local authority or State Highway Administration designates as a particularly dangerous crossing.

    (b) Obedience to sign required. -- If the driver of a vehicle approaches the stop sign, the driver:

       (1) Shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail in the crossing; and

       (2) May proceed only on exercising due care.


HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 66 1/2, § 11-702; 1977, ch. 14, § 2; 2003, ch. 196.