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ROAD TRAFFIC RULES Republic of Lithuania

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. The Road Traffic Rules establish the procedure for road
traffic on the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania.
2. The instructions, rules and other legislation
implementing the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on
Road Traffic Safety and governing road traffic may not
contravene the Road Traffic Rules (hereinafter – these
Rules) .
II. DEFINITIONS FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THESE RULES
3. Definitions for the purposes of these Rules:
3.1. Service transport means the vehicles that belong to
companies, institutions or organizations present in the
zone marked with prohibitive signs, to people living or
working in the said zone or vehicles that deliver goods
to/from that zone or come to that zone to pick up goods,
as well as taxi cars that bring passengers to/from this
zone or come to this zone to pick them up.
3.2. Give way means that the driver must not continue or
resume his advance or manoeuvre if by so doing he
might compel the drivers of other vehicles to change the
direction or speed of their vehicles abruptly.
3.3. Road Accident Report Form shall mean a form filled
in and signed at the accident scene by vehicle keepers
involved in the road accident recording the fact of the road accident, describing the circumstances, and drawing
a sketch.
3.4. Ceased to be valid.
3.5. Level-crossing means an intersection of a railway
and a road on the same level.
3.6. Residential area means a road or a territory which is
signposted as Beginning of Residential Area at its entry
and End of Residential Area at its exit.
3.7. Road means the surface of the strip of ground or a
superstructure intended and used for road traffic across
its width, including carriageway, intersections,
pavements, roadsides, pedestrian and cycle paths, and
dividing strips.
3.8. Shoulder means a road area next to the carriageway
(from the verge of the carriageway to the edge of the
roadbed) paved by the same or different paving as the
carriageway and/or separated from the carriageway by
the edge line, however not regarded either as a
pavement or a pedestrian or bicycle track.
3.9. Overtaking means passing one or several vehicles on
the road by using the lane of oncoming traffic.
3.10. School bus means a yellow bus with distinguishing
Children on Board marks designated for carrying children
(students of educational institutions). Buses of other
colours shall also be categorised as school buses if they
carry children to or from an educational institution under
contracts signed with carriers and are marked with
distinguishing Children on Board marks.
3.11. Wheelchair shall mean a chair with wheels for the
disabled which is automated or hand controlled.
3.12. Organised group of cyclists shall mean a group of
cyclists participating in a pre-planned event (marathon,
competition, outing, training, etc.) and travelling
according to a planned route that is escorted by a motor
vehicle or motor vehicles with orange flashing lights on or
police vehicles with blue and red or just blue flashing
lights on.
3.13. Organised group of pedestrians shall mean a group
of people walking on a road according to a planned route
accompanied by responsible persons.
3.14. Main road is: a road signposted as ‘Priority Road’,
‘Intersection with a Side Road’, ‘Side Road from the
Right’, ‘Side Road from the Left’, ‘Motorway’, ‘Motor
Vehicle Road’ in relation to the intersected road or
connected road; a road in relation to another road
signposted as ‘Give Way’, ‘STOP’, ‘End of Residential
Area’; a road with paving (concrete, asphalt, and cobble)
in relation to an improved unpaved road (macadam and
gravel), or a dirt road (of a forest, field, or similar road),
and an improved unpaved road in relation to a dirt road.
A road with paving or an improved unpaved road section
of the side road before an intersection does not make it
equivalent to the intersected or connected road. There is
no priority road in controlled intersections.
3.15. Changing lanes means changing the traffic lane
without getting into the lane of traffic travelling in the
opposite direction.
3.16. Car park for vehicles (hereinafter referred to as "car
park") shall mean an area designated and adapted for
vehicle parking.
3.17. Crossroads shall mean an area limited by imaginary lines extending from the outer edges of the intersecting
carriageways.
3.18. Other terms used in these Rules are defined in the
Law on Road Traffic Safety of the Republic of Lithuania
and the Law on Energy from Renewable Sources of the
Republic of Lithuania.

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