Highway Code (Luxembourg)

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The Luxembourg Road Traffic Act (in short: French Code de la route) is a compilation of laws that came into force in the first form, which is still relevant today, on February 14, 1955 , and provisions governing the use of public roads for all road users contains. These provisions are supplemented by implementing provisions of November 23, 1955 and other laws. The provisions have been amended several times .

The Luxembourg road traffic regulations, together with other road traffic regulations, largely reflect road traffic law on over 1000 pages and generally also apply without restrictions to foreign vehicles and drivers who are in Luxembourg and participate in road traffic. The Luxembourg road traffic regulations are basically divided into articles and paragraphs and paragraphs or numbers or letters.

The first “Code de la route” from 1897
"Catechism" from 1925 with the most important rules for road traffic

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The name common in Luxembourg: Code de la route was originally used for a manual published by the Sécurité routière (a traffic safety association). At the same time, the designation, similar to France (Code de la route en France) and Belgium (Code de la route en Belgique), is also used for the entire traffic regulations in Luxembourg. Officially, the compilation of the laws is abbreviated in the publication as Recueil de Législation Routière ( e.g. de .: Collection of road traffic regulations ).

history

A grand-ducal resolution was dated August 28, 1897, by which the traffic of wagons, riders and vehicles on public roads was for the first time uniformly regulated in Luxembourg. This is also known as the birth of the Luxembourg road traffic regulations . This decision was preceded by emotional discussions in Parliament. The first significant change took place on May 18, 1902.

On January 7, 1903, the first driver's license for Joseph Glesener, an engineer in the road construction administration, was issued in Luxembourg.

The regulations of 1897 and 1902 were replaced by a new law on June 10, 1932, which was valid with interruptions during the German occupation until 1955, when a major revision was made. In 1932 a first attempt was made to explain the complex provisions in a concise form, and Jean-Pierre Guill published the Catechism of Public Road Transport . From January 1, 1941, the German Road Traffic Ordinance of November 13, 1937 was in effect in Luxembourg for a few years.

The Luxembourg road traffic regulations in the basic version of February 14, 1955 are thus a further development of the law of June 10, 1932. These provisions have also been amended again and again since then .

In 1966 there was a popular edition of the road traffic regulations by Sécurité routière asbl (founded in 1960), which was referred to as the Code de la route popular (short: Code de la route ). The traffic rules and signs are explained in a simplified manner. The manual, with a print run of 2,000 to 3,000 copies, has been reissued every two years, alternating in German and French. Driving instructors have published their own versions in other languages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Loi du 14 février 1955 concernant la réglementation de la circulation sur toutes les voies publiques of March 7, 1955.
  2. ↑ Arrêté grand-ducal du 23 November 1955 portant règlement de la circulation sur toutes les voies publiques of December 2, 1955.
  3. ↑ Arrêté grand-ducal du 28 août 1897 portant règlement général sur la circulation des véhicules, cavaliers et vélocipèdes sur les voies publiques , last accessed on March 10, 2018.
  4. ^ Jacques Ganser: 115 years of driving license , Luxemburger Wort from March 5, 2018.
  5. ^ Jacques Ganser: 115 years of driving license , Luxemburger Wort from March 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Loi du 10 juin 1932 concernant la réglementation de la circulation des véhicules de toute nature sur les voies publiques , last accessed on March 10, 2018.
  7. ^ Jacques Ganser: 115 years of driving license , Luxemburger Wort from March 5, 2018.
  8. ^ Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt, year 1937, No. 56, November 16, 1937, p. 1179.
  9. ^ Ordinance sheet for Luxembourg , year 1940, p. 441 (Google Books).
  10. ↑ The first edition was published in German, French and Italian.
  11. ^ Jacques Ganser: 115 years of driving license , Luxemburger Wort from March 5, 2018.