Bill Text: VA HB15 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) [HB15 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB15-Chaptered.html
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 light units.
Any member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or
volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip
one vehicle owned by him with no more than two four flashing or
steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units of types
approved by the Superintendent. Warning light units permitted by this section
shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with
warning light units 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.
