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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="21-304" title_number="21" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Rules of the Road" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Driving on Right Side of Roadway; Overtaking and Passing; Use of Roadway">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the requirements of subsection (b) of this section, the driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the overtaken vehicle is making or about to make a left turn;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On a highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by parked vehicles and wide enough for two or more lines of vehicles moving lawfully in the same direction as the overtaking vehicle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On any one–way roadway, if the roadway is free from obstruction and wide enough for two or more lines of moving vehicles.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle to the right only if it is safe to do so.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection and for an operator of a bicycle or motor scooter, a person may not make the movement described under subsections (a) and (b) of this section by driving off the roadway.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The driver of a vehicle may make the movement described under subsections (a) and (b) of this section by driving outside the marked lane onto the shoulder to overtake and pass a vehicle that is making or about to make a left turn if the driver can do so without leaving the paved surface.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
