Bill Text: VA HB563 | 2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Motor vehicles, certain; flashing red or red and white warning lights.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) [HB563 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB563-Chaptered.html
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, emergency medical services vehicles, vehicles of the Department of Emergency Management, vehicles of the Department of Environmental Quality, vehicles of the Virginia National Guard Civil Support Team and the Virginia National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) when responding to an emergency, 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 Huntington Ingalls Industries, 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.
