Title 31
Motor and Other Vehicles

Chapter 17
Right-Of-Way

R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-17-3

§ 31-17-3. Intersection with through highway.

The driver of a vehicle shall stop at the entrance to a through highway and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from the through highway, or which are approaching so closely on the through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but the driver having so yielded may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on the through highway shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the through highway. Violations of this section are subject to the fines enumerated in § 31-41.1-4.

History of Section.
P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 28, § 3; P.L. 1952, ch. 2937, § 13; G.L. 1956, § 13-17-3; P.L. 2006, ch. 216, § 65.