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2012 SESSION

12102232D
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.
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Patrons-- O'Quinn and Landes; Senator: Deeds
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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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.