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2005 SESSION

055434232
HOUSE BILL NO. 2259
Offered January 12, 2005
Prefiled January 11, 2005
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-111.1, relating to maliciously running over road flares; penalty.
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Patron-- Bell
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-111.1 as follows:

§ 46.2-111.1. Destroying flares and other signals relating to stopped motor vehicles; penalty.

Any person who willfully, intentionally, and without authority moves, removes, or destroys a flare, reflectorized triangular warning device, vehicular hazard warning signal flasher, traffic cone, or any other such signal while it is being used to indicate that a vehicle is stopped on any roadway or on the shoulder of any highway in the Commonwealth in such a manner that the device no longer properly serves its intended signal function is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.