321.327  Pedestrians' right-of-way.

Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

A person convicted of a violation of this section is guilty of a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation under section 805.8, subsection 2, paragraph "i".

Section History: Early form

  [C39, § 5027.03; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.327]

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1203, §13

Internal References

  Referred to in § 321.325, 805.8(2i)


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