Bill Text: VA HB15 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) [HB15 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB15-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 76
An Act to amend and reenact §46.2-1024 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain warning light units.
[H 15]
Approved March 14, 2024

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §46.2-1024 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§46.2-1024. Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning light units.

Any member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him with no more than two four flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units of types approved by the Superintendent. Warning light units permitted by this section shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with warning light units as authorized in this section shall be operated by a police chaplain only if he has successfully completed a course of training in the safe operation of a motor vehicle under emergency conditions and a certificate attesting to such successful completion, signed by the course instructor, is carried at all times in the vehicle when operated by the police chaplain to whom the certificate applies.

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