Regulatory prohibitive signs — Oregon Permit Test
Regulatory prohibitive signs on the Oregon permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A stop sign means you must come to a complete stop, yield to other vehicles, and stay stopped for pedestrians crossing in marked or unmarked crosswalks.
The stop is not the end of the duty. You may enter only when it is safe, and a pedestrian keeps you there after the traffic has gone.
This sign means you must come to a complete stop. Yield to other vehicles and stop and stay stopped for pedestrians crossing in marked or unmarked crosswalks.
A yield sign means you should reduce speed and yield the right of way, stopping if that is what it takes.
Yielding is a duty to yield, not a duty to slow a little. If the gap never comes, the sign requires you to stop and wait for one.
This sign means you should reduce speed and yield right of way. If needed, stop the same as you would for a stop sign.
A do not enter sign warns you not to enter a road or freeway, and you will see it if you are going the wrong way.
Seeing this sign is itself the emergency. It faces traffic coming at you, which means you are already pointed into oncoming lanes.
This sign warns you not to enter a road or freeway. You will see this sign if you are going the wrong way.
A sign showing a movement struck through with a slash mark means do not make the turn shown.
One sign family covers every banned turn, so the picture tells you which movement is gone without a word of text.
When you see a sign with a red circle and a slash mark, it means do not make the turn shown.
A no U turn sign prohibits turning the vehicle around to travel the opposite direction at that place.
A U turn crosses every lane at once and takes longest to complete, so it is banned where sight distance or traffic will not allow it.
No Left Turn; No Right Turn; No U Turn: These signs prohibit certain actions.
On the test
What must a driver do at this sign?
Come to a complete stop and stay stopped for crossing pedestrians. The stop is not the end of the duty. You may enter only when it is safe, and a pedestrian keeps you there after the traffic has gone. 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, p.7: “This sign means you must come to a complete stop. Yield to other vehicles and stop and stay stopped for pedestrians crossing in marked or unmarked crosswalks.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, published by the Oregon Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pdf (2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, ODOT form 37, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pages.txt (pdftotext without -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 8, nonLawPages, extraction flag and its basis)