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2005 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.2-1110 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-1110. Height of vehicles; damage to overhead obstruction; penalty.
No loaded or unloaded vehicle shall exceed a height of thirteen
13 feet, six inches.
Nothing contained in this section shall require either the
public authorities or railroad companies to provide vertical clearances of
overhead bridges or structures in excess of twelve 12 feet, six
inches, or to make any changes in the vertical clearances of existing overhead
bridges or structures crossing highways. The driver or owner of vehicles on
highways shall be held financially responsible for any damage to overhead
bridges or structures that results from collisions therewith.
The driver or owner of any vehicle colliding with an overhead bridge or structure shall immediately notify, either in person or by telephone, a law-enforcement officer or the public authority or railroad company, owning or maintaining such overhead bridge or structure of the fact of such collision, and his name, address, driver's license number, and the registration number of his vehicle. Failure to give such notice immediately, either in person or by telephone, shall constitute a Class 1 misdemeanor.
On any highway over which there is a bridge or structure
having a vertical clearance of less than fourteen 14 feet, the
Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner shall have at least two signs erected
setting forth the height of the bridge or structure. Such signs shall be
located at least 1,500 feet ahead of the bridge or structure.
Any person who drives or attempts to drive any vehicle or combination of vehicles into or through any tunnel when the height of such vehicle, any vehicle in a combination of vehicles, or any load on any such vehicle exceeds that permitted for such tunnel, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and, in addition, shall be assessed three driver demerit points.