Bill Text: VA HB685 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Emergency lights; removes member of fire department, rescue squad, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - House: Left in Transportation [HB685 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB685-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 685 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 11, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact §46.2-1024 of the Code of Virginia, relating to emergency lights. ---------- Patrons-- O'Quinn; Senator: Deeds ---------- Referred to Committee on Transportation ----------

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 or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights of types approved by the Superintendent. 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.