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2004 SESSION


CHAPTER 575
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-834 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school crossing guards; use of hand-held stop signs to control traffic.
[H 1445]
Approved April 12, 2004

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-834 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-834. Signals by law-enforcement officers and crossing guards.

A. Law-enforcement officers may assume control of traffic at any intersection, regardless of whether such intersection is controlled by lights, controlled by other traffic control devices, or uncontrolled. Whenever any law-enforcement officer so assumes control of traffic, all drivers of vehicles shall obey his signals.

B. Law-enforcement officers and uniformed school crossing guards may assume control of traffic otherwise controlled by lights, and in such event, signals by such officers and uniformed crossing guards shall take precedence over such traffic control devices.

C. Uniformed school crossing guards may control traffic at any marked school crossing, whether such crossing is at an intersection or another location. Uniformed school crossing guards who are supplied by their local school division with hand-held stop signs shall use such signs whenever controlling traffic as authorized in this subsection.