Lane Splitting & Filtering

Lane splitting and lane filtering are illegal in Alabama with no exception for stopped or slow traffic. Ala. Code § 32-5A-242(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes…

Lane splitting and filtering are both prohibited in Alaska, but the ban lives in a Department of Public Safety regulation rather than in a statute. 13 AAC 02.427(b) says a motorcycle…

Arizona still prohibits lane splitting as most riders picture it, but A.R.S. § 28-903(F) opens a narrow lane-filtering exception. A two-wheeled motorcycle may move between lanes to…

No Arkansas statute uses the words lane splitting, filtering, or lane sharing, and the General Assembly has never written a motorcycle-specific lane rule of any kind. What governs…

Lane splitting is lawful in California. Vehicle Code section 21658.1, added by AB 51 in 2016, defines it as driving a motorcycle with two wheels in contact with the ground between rows…

Riding between lanes of traffic is illegal in Colorado. C.R.S. § 42-4-1503 (3)(a) forbids driving a motorcycle or autocycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Connecticut expressly forbids riding a motorcycle between lanes of traffic and forbids overtaking a car within the lane the motorcycle already occupies, both in Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec…

Delaware has no statute that mentions lane splitting, filtering or lane sharing, and no statute giving a motorcycle the full use of a lane or the right to ride two abreast. The answer…

The District of Columbia has no lane-splitting statute and no lane-filtering rule for motorcycles, in either direction. A motorcycle is a vehicle under the traffic regulations, so it…

Florida bans lane splitting in so many words. Fla. Stat. section 316.209(3) states that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both unlawful in Hawaii. HRS section 291C-153(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

Idaho has never enacted either a lane-splitting ban or a lane-filtering allowance. Chapter 6 of title 49 runs from section 49-663 on neighborhood electric vehicles straight to section…

Lane splitting is not lawful in Illinois. The Vehicle Code never uses the phrase, but 625 ILCS 5/11-703(c) makes the maneuver itself unlawful: a two-wheeled vehicle passing on the left…

Indiana has never written a lane splitting rule. The phrases lane splitting, lane filtering and between lanes return zero hits anywhere in the Indiana Code. What Indiana does say, at…

Iowa Code section 321.275(4) does four things in one paragraph. It bans a motorcycle or motorized bicycle from being operated between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Kansas. K.S.A. 8-1595(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles, and…

Kentucky has neither authorized lane splitting nor written an express ban on it. KRS 189.285, the section that governs how motorcycles are operated and ridden, says nothing about lane…

Louisiana carries the prohibition and the allowance in the same section. La. R.S. 32:191.1(C) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent…

Maine prohibits lane splitting twice over, in two separate subsections of 29-A M.R.S. § 2062. Subsection 5 bars a motorcycle operator from overtaking or passing in the lane occupied by…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Maryland. Transportation Article § 21-1303(d) says a person may not operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

Lane splitting is illegal in Massachusetts. G.L. c. 89, § 4A tells the operator of a motorcycle that he shall not pass any other motor vehicle within the same lane, and the ban carries…

Michigan bans lane splitting in plain words. MCL 257.660(5) says a person operating a motorcycle, moped, low-speed vehicle, electric personal assistive mobility device or electric…

Minnesota motorcyclists may split and filter, but only in slow traffic. Minn. Stat. § 169.974, subd. 5(f) still prohibits riding between lanes, riding abreast of another vehicle in the…

Mississippi neither authorises lane splitting nor bans it by name. Nothing in the Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated ties motorcycles to lane position at all: Chapter 3's Article 13 on…

Missouri has neither a statute permitting a motorcycle to ride between lanes of traffic nor one prohibiting the manoeuvre by name. A full-text search of the Revised Statutes of…

Montana authorised lane filtering in 2021 and the section is still in force with no expiry. Mont. Code Ann. § 61-8-392 lets the operator of a two-wheeled motorcycle overtake and pass a…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both illegal in Nebraska. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,308(3) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent…

Nevada prohibits lane splitting outright. NRS 486.351(1) says a person other than an on-duty police officer "shall not drive a motorcycle or moped between moving or stationary vehicles…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in New Hampshire and the ban has no conditions attached to it. RSA 265:121, III says no person shall drive a motorcycle on a roadway between lanes…

New Jersey has never authorized lane splitting or lane filtering, and the words appear nowhere in the Revised Statutes. A motorcycle riding the stripe between two lines of traffic is…

New York prohibits lane splitting outright. Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1252(c) makes it illegal to operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of…

North Carolina has never authorised lane splitting and has never written a section that uses the phrase. The motorcycle lane statute, G.S. 20-146.1, entitles a motorcycle to the full…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both unlawful in North Dakota. Section 39-10.2-03(3) says no person may operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

Ohio has never enacted a lane-splitting or lane-filtering statute, and neither phrase appears anywhere in the Revised Code. A motorcyclist who rides the white line between two lanes of…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Oklahoma. 47 O.S. Section 11-1103(D) states that no driver of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle or…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Oregon, not merely unauthorised. ORS 814.240(1)(b) makes it the offence of motorcycle or moped unlawful passing to operate a moped or motorcycle…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Pennsylvania. Section 3523(c) of the Vehicle Code says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

Rhode Island never wrote a lane-splitting statute in either direction: title 31 neither authorizes filtering between lanes nor bans it by name. What makes the practice unlawful is the…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in South Carolina. S.C. Code Section 56-5-3640(c) states that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic, or between adjacent…

Lane splitting is illegal in South Dakota. SDCL 32-20-9.3 says no person may operate a motorcycle between adjacent lanes of traffic, or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles, with…

Tennessee prohibits lane splitting outright. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-182(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of…

Texas banned motorcycle lane splitting in plain words on September 1, 2023. Transportation Code Section 545.0605(a)(3)(B), added by House Bill 4122 of the 88th Legislature, says the…

Utah runs two rules at once and they are not the same thing. Lane splitting, riding a motorcycle between clearly marked lanes while traffic is in motion, is flatly prohibited by Utah…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both illegal in Vermont. 23 V.S.A. § 1115(c) prohibits operating a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle "between lanes of traffic or between adjacent…

Virginia does not permit lane splitting, and it does not treat the offense as a simple traffic ticket. Va. Code § 46.2-857 makes it reckless driving to drive any motor vehicle so as to…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Washington. RCW 46.61.608(3) states flatly that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

West Virginia has written no lane-splitting law in either direction. The Code contains no permission for a motorcycle to ride between lanes and no section that names the practice to…

Wisconsin has never legislated lane splitting in either direction. The phrases "lane splitting" and "between lanes" appear nowhere in chs. 340 to 351, the whole Wisconsin Vehicle Code…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both illegal in Wyoming. W.S. 31-5-115(g) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of…