13 AAC 02.495 - Riding in and on vehicles and towed objects; boarding and alighting; obstructing of driver's view or driving mechanism
(a) No person may
drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front or
driver's seat more persons or objects than the number for which the seat was
designed, so as to unreasonably obstruct the view of the driver to the front or
sides of the vehicle or so as to interfere with the driver's control over the
driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(b) Repealed 6/28/79.
(c) No person may drive a vehicle when he has
in his embrace, or holds in his hands, another person or any object in a manner
which prevents the free and unhampered operation of the vehicle.
(d) No person may open the door of a motor
vehicle unless it is reasonably safe to do so, without interfering with the
movement of other traffic. No person may leave a door of a vehicle open on the
side of a parked vehicle so as to obstruct the movement of vehicular traffic.
No person may enter or leave a vehicle when the vehicle is in motion.
(e) No person may ride on an outside part of
a vehicle traveling upon a highway unless that part is specifically designed to
carry a passenger when the vehicle is in motion. No person may attach himself
or a conveyance or other device to a vehicle for the purpose of riding or being
towed.
(f) No person may occupy a
trailer or other object when it is being towed, unless the trailer or other
object is specifically designed to transport passengers while it is being
towed.
(g) Subsections (e) and (f)
of this section do not apply to an authorized emergency vehicle, to a vehicle
used in construction and maintenance work on, along, or above a highway when
the vehicle is actually engaged in the specified work, to a person riding in
the open bed of a truck if he is seated on the bed or floor of the vehicle or
upon a seat built below the level of the sideboards of the vehicle, or within
truck bodies in space intended for merchandise, or to a person riding in a
parade.
Notes
Authority:AS 28.05.011
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