Chapter 316 — Chapter 316
278 sections in this chapter.
Fla. Stat. § 316.001 Short title
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This chapter may be known and cited as the “Florida Uniform Traffic Control Law.”
Fla. Stat. § 316.002 Purpose
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It is the legislative intent in the adoption of this chapter to make uniform traffic laws to apply throughout the state and its several counties and uniform traffic ordinances to apply in all municipalities. The Legislature recognizes that there are conditions which require munic…
Fla. Stat. § 316.003 Definitions
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The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context otherwise requires:(1) AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES.—Vehicles of the fire department, fire patrol, police vehicles, emergen…
Fla. Stat. § 316.006 Jurisdiction
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Jurisdiction to control traffic is vested as follows:(1) STATE.—The Department of Transportation shall have all original jurisdiction over all state roads throughout this state, including those within the grounds of all state institutions and the boundaries of all dedicated state…
Fla. Stat. § 316.007 Provisions uniform throughout state
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The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable and uniform throughout this state and in all political subdivisions and municipalities therein, and no local authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance on a matter covered by this chapter unless expressly authorized. However,…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0075 Operator use of commercial mobile radio services and electronic communications devices
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Regulation of operator or passenger use of commercial mobile radio services and other electronic communications devices in a motor vehicle is expressly preempted to the state.
Fla. Stat. § 316.0076 Regulation and use of cameras
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Regulation of the use of cameras for enforcing the provisions of this chapter is expressly preempted to the state. The regulation of the use of cameras for enforcing the provisions of this chapter is not required to comply with provisions of chapter 493.
Fla. Stat. § 316.0077 Camera systems; contract procurement
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A contract awarded by another governmental entity outside this state or by a consortium or cooperative of governmental entities outside this state may not be used to procure contracts with manufacturers or vendors of school bus infraction detection systems, speed detection system…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0078 Prohibition on contracting for camera systems of vendors of foreign countries of concern
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(1) As used in this section, the terms “controlling interest” and “foreign country of concern” have the same meanings as in s. 287.138(1).(2) On or after July 1, 2025, a governmental entity may not knowingly enter into or renew a contract with a contracting vendor of a school bus…
Fla. Stat. § 316.008 Powers of local authorities
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(1) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities, with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of the police power, from:(a) Regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing, or parking.(b) Regulat…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0081 Request regarding traffic signals or other traffic control devices
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To ensure the safe and efficient operation of this state’s roadways, a county or municipality must respond to a request by a county or municipality to which it provides, by agreement, traffic signal or traffic control device services within 60 days after receiving such a request …
Fla. Stat. § 316.0083 Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Program; administration; report
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(1)(a) For purposes of administering this section, the department, a county, or a municipality may authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer under s. 316.640 to issue a traffic citation for a violation of s. 316.074(1) or s. 316.075(1)(c)1. A notice of violation and a tr…
Fla. Stat. § 316.00831 Distribution of penalties collected under s. 316.0083(1)(b)
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The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles or any county or municipality authorized to issue a notification and impose a penalty under s. 316.0083(1)(b) that collects any such penalty after the effective date of this act, but prior to notification by the Department of Re…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0085 Skateboarding; inline skating; freestyle or mountain and off-road bicycling; paintball; definitions; liability
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(1) The purpose of this section is to encourage governmental owners or lessees of property to make land available to the public for skateboarding, inline skating, paintball, and freestyle or mountain and off-road bicycling. It is recognized that governmental owners or lessees of …
Fla. Stat. § 316.027 Crash involving death or personal injuries
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(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Serious bodily injury” means an injury to a person, including the driver, which consists of a physical condition that creates a substantial risk of death, serious personal disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function o…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0271 Yellow dot critical motorist medical information program; yellow dot decal, folder, and information form
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(1) The governing body of a county may create a yellow dot critical motorist medical information program to facilitate the provision of emergency medical care to program participants by emergency medical responders by making critical medical information readily available to respo…
Fla. Stat. § 316.061 Crashes involving damage to vehicle or property
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(1) The driver of any vehicle involved in a crash resulting only in damage to a vehicle or other property which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such crash or as close thereto as possible, and shall forthwith return to, and i…
Fla. Stat. § 316.062 Duty to give information and render aid
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(1) The driver of any vehicle involved in a crash resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle or other property which is driven or attended by any person shall give his or her name, address, and the registration number of the vehicle he or she is drivin…
Fla. Stat. § 316.063 Duty upon damaging unattended vehicle or other property
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(1) The driver of any vehicle which collides with, or is involved in a crash with, any vehicle or other property which is unattended, resulting in any damage to such other vehicle or property, shall immediately stop and shall then and there either locate and notify the operator o…
Fla. Stat. § 316.064 When driver unable to report
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(1) A crash report is not required under this chapter from any person who is physically incapable of making a report during the period of such incapacity.(2) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making an immediate or a written report of a crash, as require…
Fla. Stat. § 316.065 Crashes; reports; penalties
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(1) The driver of a vehicle involved in a crash resulting in injury to or death of any persons or damage to any vehicle or other property in an apparent amount of at least $500 shall immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of the crash to the local police d…
Fla. Stat. § 316.066 Written reports of crashes
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(1)(a) A Florida Traffic Crash Report, Long Form must be completed and submitted to the department within 10 days after an investigation is completed by the law enforcement officer who in the regular course of duty investigates a motor vehicle crash that:1. Resulted in death of, …
Fla. Stat. § 316.067 False reports
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Any person who gives information in oral, electronic, or written reports as required in this chapter, knowing or having reason to believe that such information is false, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
Fla. Stat. § 316.068 Crash report forms
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(1) The department shall prepare and, upon request, supply to police departments, sheriffs, and other appropriate agencies or individuals forms for crash reports as required in this chapter, suitable with respect to the persons required to make such reports and the purposes to be…
Fla. Stat. § 316.069 State to tabulate and analyze crash reports
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The state shall tabulate and may analyze all crash reports and shall publish, annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic crashes. The state shall maintain separate statistics on the number and locat…
Fla. Stat. § 316.070 Exchange of information at scene of crash
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The law enforcement officer at the scene of a crash required to be reported in accordance with the provisions of s. 316.066 shall instruct the driver of each vehicle involved in the crash to report the following to all other parties suffering injury or property damage as an appar…
Fla. Stat. § 316.071 Disabled vehicles obstructing traffic
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Whenever a vehicle is disabled on any street or highway within the state or for any reason obstructs the regular flow of traffic, the driver shall move the vehicle so as not to obstruct the regular flow of traffic or, if he or she cannot move the vehicle alone, solicit help and m…
Fla. Stat. § 316.072 Obedience to and effect of traffic laws
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(1) PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER REFERRING TO VEHICLES UPON THE HIGHWAYS.—The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the operation of vehicles and bicycles and the movement of pedestrians upon all state-maintained highways, county-maintained highways, and municipal streets and alleys…
Fla. Stat. § 316.073 Applicability to animals and animal-drawn vehicles
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Every person driving an animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway is subject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions of this chapter which by their nature can have no application. The provisions of this chapter applicable to pede…
Fla. Stat. § 316.074 Obedience to and required traffic control devices
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(1) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto, placed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authori…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0741 High-occupancy-vehicle lanes
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(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “High-occupancy-vehicle lane” or “HOV lane” means a lane of a public roadway designated for use by vehicles in which there is more than one occupant unless otherwise authorized by federal law.(b) “Hybrid vehicle” means a motor vehicle:1. …
Fla. Stat. § 316.0745 Uniform signals and devices
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(1) The Department of Transportation shall adopt a uniform system of traffic control devices for use on the streets and highways of the state. The uniform system shall, insofar as is practicable, conform to the system adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials…
Fla. Stat. § 316.07456 Transitional implementation
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Any traffic infraction detector deployed on the highways, streets, and roads of this state must meet specifications established by the Department of Transportation, and must be tested at regular intervals according to specifications prescribed by the Department of Transportation.…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0747 Sale or purchase of traffic control devices by nongovernmental entities; prohibitions
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(1) It is unlawful for any nongovernmental entity to use any traffic control device at any place where the general public is invited, unless such device conforms to the uniform system of traffic control devices adopted by the Department of Transportation pursuant to this chapter.…
Fla. Stat. § 316.075 Traffic control signal devices
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(1) Except for automatic warning signal lights installed or to be installed at railroad crossings, whenever traffic, including municipal traffic, is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting different colored lights, or colored lighted arrows, successively one at a time or…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0755 Pedestrian control signals
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When pedestrian indicators are installed, such indicators must conform to the requirements of the most recent Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Fla. Stat. § 316.076 Flashing signals
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(1) Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in a traffic sign or signal it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows:(a) Flashing red (stop signal).—When a red lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop …
Fla. Stat. § 316.0765 Lane direction control signals
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When lane direction control signals are placed over the individual lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in any lane or lanes over which a green signal is shown, but shall not enter or travel in any lane or lanes over which a red signal is shown. A violation …
Fla. Stat. § 316.077 Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings
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(1) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the mo…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0775 Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad signs or signals
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(1) A person may not, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof. A violation of this su…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0776 Traffic infraction detectors; speed detection systems; placement and installation
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(1) Traffic infraction detectors are allowed on state roads when permitted by the Department of Transportation and under placement and installation specifications developed by the Department of Transportation. Traffic infraction detectors are allowed on streets and highways under…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0777 Automated license plate recognition systems; installation within rights-of-way of State Highway System; public records exemption
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(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Active,” “criminal intelligence information,” and “criminal investigative information” have the same meanings as provided in s. 119.011(3).(b) “Agency” has the same meaning as provided in s. 119.011.(c) “Automated license plate recogniti…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0778 Automated license plate recognition systems; records retention
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(1) As used in this section, the term “automated license plate recognition system” means a system of one or more mobile or fixed high-speed cameras combined with computer algorithms to convert images of license plates into computer-readable data.(2) In consultation with the Depar…
Fla. Stat. § 316.078 Detour signs to be respected
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(1) It is unlawful to tear down or deface any detour sign or to break down or drive around any barricade erected for the purpose of closing any section of a public street or highway to traffic during the construction or repair thereof or to drive over such section of public stree…
Fla. Stat. § 316.079 Duty to yield to highway construction workers
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(1) Every driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian worker and flagperson engaged in maintenance or construction work on a highway whenever the driver is reasonably and lawfully notified of the presence of such worker by a flagperson and a warning sign or d…
Fla. Stat. § 316.08 Requirements of flagpersons
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Any flagperson engaged in the direction of traffic on public roadways while accompanying an escort vehicle or any escort vehicle must:(1) Operate in accordance with all safety requirements prescribed by law and the Department of Transportation;(2) Operate only on the routes autho…
Fla. Stat. § 316.081 Driving on right side of roadway; exceptions
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(1) Upon all roadways of sufficient width, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing such movement;(b) When an obstruction exists makin…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0815 Duty to yield to public transit vehicles
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(1) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a publicly owned transit bus traveling in the same direction which has signaled and is reentering the traffic flow from a specifically designated pullout bay.(2) This section does not relieve the driver of a public trans…
Fla. Stat. § 316.0817 Loading and unloading of bus passengers
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(1) Notwithstanding any other law, a bus may not stop to load or unload passengers in a manner that impedes, blocks, or otherwise restricts the progression of traffic on the main-traveled portion of a roadway if there is another reasonable means for the bus to stop parallel to th…
Fla. Stat. § 316.082 Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions
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(1) Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right.(2) Upon roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in each direction, each driver shall give to the other at least one-half of the main-traveled portion of the roadway, …