Bill Text: VA HB1120 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Warning lights on privately owned vehicles; requirements relating to emergency response vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-02-26 - Continued to 2015 in Transportation (12-Y 0-N) [HB1120 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2014-HB1120-Introduced.html
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14103747D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §46.2-1024 of the Code of Virginia is 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 rescue squad, any ambulance driver employed by a privately owned ambulance service, and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him with no more than two flashing, rotating, oscillating, or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights of types approved by the Superintendent. For the purposes of this section, a light is defined as a light bulb or bulbs encased and covered by one lens. 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. |
