Bill Text: VA SB874 | 2018 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Motor vehicle drivers; signals required when driving.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-06 - VOTE: RECONSIDER (48-Y 49-N) [SB874 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB874-Comm_Sub.html
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SENATE BILL NO. 874
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Transportation
on January 31, 2018)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Howell)
A BILL to amend and reenact §46.2-848 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to signals required when driving.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §46.2-848 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§46.2-848. Signals required on backing, stopping, or turning.
Every driver who intends to back, stop, turn, or partly turn
from a direct line shall first see that such movement can be made safely and,
whenever the operation of any pedestrian or other vehicle may be
affected by such movement, shall give the signals required in this article,
plainly visible to such pedestrian or the driver of such other vehicle,
of his intention to make such movement.
