Bill Text: VA HB282 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Highway work zones; creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a work zone.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) [HB282 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB282-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-808.3 as follows:
§46.2-808.3. Violations committed within highway work zone; penalty.
Operation of any motor vehicle in a manner constituting a moving violation of any provision of this chapter in a highway work zone, as defined in §46.2-878.1, when workers are present and when such highway work zone is indicated by appropriately placed signs shall be unlawful and shall constitute a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $300 for the first offense and not less than $500 for any subsequent offense. However, if any such subsequent offense occurs within the same 12-month period as any other moving violation of any provision of this chapter while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, as defined in §46.2-878.1, such fine shall be not less than $750.
A prosecution or proceeding under §46.2-878.1 is a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under this section for the same act, and a prosecution or proceeding under this section is a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under §46.2-878.1 for the same act.
Nothing in this section shall preclude the prosecution or conviction for reckless driving of any motor vehicle operator whose operation of any motor vehicle in a highway work zone demonstrates a reckless disregard for life, limb, or property.
