Bill Text: VA HB1789 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Emergency vehicles, privately owned volunteer; requirement for flashing lights and sirens.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - Left in Transportation [HB1789 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HB1789-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§46.2-1024 and 46.2-1061 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§46.2-1024. Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning lights.
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
flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights of
types approved by the Superintendent. Warning lights permitted by this section
shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with
lighting devices 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.
§46.2-1061. Sirens or exhaust whistles on emergency vehicles.
Every law-enforcement vehicle, and every vehicle authorized
to be equipped with warning lights pursuant to §§46.2-1022
and,
46.2-1023, and 46.2-1024
shall be equipped with a siren, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to give
automatically intermittent signals. Such devices shall be of types not
prohibited by the Superintendent.