Bill Text: VA HB604 | 2014 | Regular Session | Prefiled


Bill Title: Red or red & white warning lights; VDOT vehicle allowed to use for certain service patrol functions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-12 - Left in Transportation [HB604 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-HB604-Prefiled.html
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HOUSE BILL NO. 604
Offered January 8, 2014
Prefiled January 7, 2014
A BILL to amend and reenact §46.2-1023 of the Code of Virginia, relating to flashing red or red and white warning lights.
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Patron-- Campbell
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Committee Referral Pending
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §46.2-1023 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§46.2-1023. Flashing red or red and white warning lights.

Fire apparatus, forest warden vehicles, ambulances, rescue and life-saving vehicles, vehicles of the Department of Emergency Management, Department of Transportation vehicles used for highway safety service patrol functions in responding to or on-scene at highway safety incidents, vehicles of the Department of Environmental Quality, vehicles of county, city, or town Departments of Emergency Management, vehicles of the Office of Emergency Medical Services, animal warden vehicles, and vehicles used by security personnel of the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Bassett-Walker, Inc., the Winchester Medical Center, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallops Flight Facility, and, within those areas specified in their orders of appointment, by special conservators of the peace and policemen for certain places appointed pursuant to §§19.2-13 and 19.2-17 may be equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights of types approved by the Superintendent. Such warning lights may be of types constructed within turn signal housings or motorcycle headlight housings, subject to approval by the Superintendent.

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