(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 in combination, only the colors green, red, and yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals carrying a word legend, and the lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
(a) Green indication.—
1. Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may proceed cautiously straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown alone or in combination with another indication, as directed by the manual, may cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by such arrow, or such other movement as is permitted by other indications shown at the same time, except the driver of any vehicle may U-turn, so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such movement is prohibited by posted traffic control signs. Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
3. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in s. 316.0755, pedestrians facing any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(b) Steady yellow indication.—
1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal is thereby warned that the related green movement is being terminated or that a red indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter when vehicular traffic shall not enter the intersection.
2. Pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in s. 316.0755, are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway.
(c) Steady red indication.—
1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until a green indication is shown; however:
a. The driver of a vehicle which is stopped at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or, if none then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection in obedience to a steady red signal may make a right turn, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that municipal and county authorities may prohibit any such right turn against a steady red signal at any intersection, which prohibition shall be effective when a sign giving notice thereof is erected in a location visible to traffic approaching the intersection.
b. The driver of a vehicle on a one-way street that intersects another one-way street on which traffic moves to the left shall stop in obedience to a steady red signal, but may then make a left turn into the one-way street, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that municipal and county authorities may prohibit any such left turn as described, which prohibition shall be effective when a sign giving notice thereof is attached to the traffic control signal device at the intersection.
2.a. The driver of a vehicle facing a steady red signal shall stop before entering the crosswalk and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian, with a permitted signal, to cross a roadway when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
b. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in s. 316.0755, pedestrians facing a steady red signal shall not enter the roadway.
(2) In the event an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any such sign or marking the stop shall be made at the signal.
(3)(a) No traffic control signal device shall be used which does not exhibit a yellow or “caution” light between the green or “go” signal and the red or “stop” signal.
(b) No traffic control signal device shall display other than the color red at the top of the vertical signal, nor shall it display other than the color red at the extreme left of the horizontal signal.
(4) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable pursuant to chapter 318 as either a pedestrian violation or, if the infraction resulted from the operation of a vehicle, as a moving violation.
Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1993 WL 366882
..., in that it is a signal which regulates, warns, or guides traffic. We therefore conclude that by using the term "traffic lights" in section 316.1235, the legislature clearly intended to include both traffic control signal devices, as referred to in section 316.075, i.e., those which alternately direct traffic to stop and permit it to proceed, as well as those provided in section 316.076, i.e., flashing red or yellow signals, which respectively direct the motorist to stop and then proceed into the intersection, or proceed with caution through the intersection. In so deciding, we note that in 1971 the legislature enacted the Florida Uniform Traffic Control Law, which included the definitions for official traffic control devices and traffic control signals, as well as section 316.075 (originally numbered 316.138), and section 316.076 (originally numbered 316.133)....
Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1998 WL 476160
...he instruction because there was no evidence that Renfroe had entered the intersection when Pate made his turn. Pate did not present to the trial court the argument he makes now, i.e., that it was an error of law to give the instruction because only section 316.075(1)(b), which expressly applies to a motorist turning left under a green arrow, should provide the standard for Pate's conduct. Indeed, though arguing to this court that the correct standard for judging whether Pate's conduct was negligent is contained in section 316.075(1)(b), Pate did not request any jury instruction based on that statute....
Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2014 WL 2609201
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whether by public or private parties and providing for the construction and
maintenance of such streets and highways.” (Emphasis added.)
Chapter 316, of course, regulates red light violations. Section 316.075
contains detailed rules governing the conduct of drivers and pedestrians relating to
traffic control signal devices....
...Among these rules is the general requirement that
“[v]ehicular traffic facing a steady red signal shall stop before entering the
crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the
intersection and shall remain standing until a green indication is shown.” §
316.075(1)(c)1., Fla. Stat. (2008). Any violation of the rules in section 316.075
relating to traffic control signal devices “is a noncriminal traffic infraction,
punishable pursuant to chapter 318.” § 316.075(4), Fla....
...e law. Nothing in
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section 316.008(1)(w) provides that municipalities are granted the authority to
enact an enforcement regime different from the enforcement regime applicable
under the provision of section 316.075(4) that red light violations are “punishable
pursuant to chapter 318.” And nothing in section 316.008(1)(w) creates an
exception from the express preemption imposed by section 318.121 of any fines
other than the penalties impos...
...preemption, its reliance upon the fact that the municipalities created enforcement
regimes different than those provided by state law seems to implicate conflict
preemption—essentially concluding that the ordinances are invalid because they
conflict with section 316.075(4), Florida Statutes, which states that red light
violations are “punishable pursuant to chapter 318,” § 316.075(4), Fla....
...2d 1160, 1161
(Fla. 1989)).
Nonetheless, even applying the broader standard for conflict preemption
recently adopted by this Court in Palm Bay, a decision from which I also dissented,
the municipal ordinances in this case still do not conflict with section 316.075(4),
which states that red light violations are “punishable pursuant to chapter 318.”
§ 316.075(4), Fla....
...l to those found
within the Florida Uniform Traffic Control Law.
While I do not dispute that those red light violations prosecuted under the
Florida Uniform Traffic Control Law must be punished “pursuant to chapter 318,”
as required by section 316.075, red light violations punished through the
municipalities’ code enforcement mechanisms are not subject to this same
requirement....
...ble-cause Fourth Amendment analysis." Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 813, 116 S.Ct. 1769, 135 L.Ed.2d 89 (1996). The trial court found that Detective Hodgers observed Noto rolling through a red light, a violation of Florida's traffic law. See § 316.075(1)(c), Fla....
cited for failing to obey a traffic device, section 316.075(3)(a), Florida Statutes (1997), and for careless
This Florida statute resource is curated by Graham W. Syfert, Esq., a Jacksonville, Florida personal injury and workers' compensation attorney. Attorney Syfert regularly works with Chapter 316 in the context of traffic and automobile accident law and represents clients throughout Northeast Florida. For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.
