Bill Text: VA HB498 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Funeral processions; local sheriff and police department escorts. [Track Bill]

Status: 2012-02-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) [HB498 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB498-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 498 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 10, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-828 of the Code of Virginia, relating to funeral processions; traffic control by a locality's sheriff or police department. ---------- Patron-- Dance ---------- Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 46.2-828 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§46.2-828. Right-of-way for funeral processions under police or sheriff's escort; improper joining of, passing through, or interfering with processions prohibited; use of high beam headlights and hazard lights by vehicles traveling in funeral processions.

Funeral processions traveling under police or sheriff's escort shall have the right-of-way in any highway through which they may pass. Localities may, by ordinance, provide for such escort service and provide for the imposition of reasonable fees to defray the cost of such service.

The sheriff or police department in any locality not having a separate police department may provide traffic control for funeral processions when equipment and personnel are not otherwise engaged in law-enforcement activities.

Vehicles traveling as part of any funeral procession, whether escorted or unescorted, may display high beam headlights and flash all four turn signals or hazard lights to identify themselves as part of the procession.

No vehicle that is not properly part of a funeral procession shall join, pass through, or interfere with the passage of any funeral procession under escort as provided in this section.