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2017 SESSION

17100975D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1789
Offered January 11, 2017
Prefiled January 9, 2017
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-1024 and 46.2-1061 of the Code of Virginia, relating to flashing lights and sirens on privately owned volunteer emergency vehicles; requirements.
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Patrons-- Rasoul, Boysko, Kory, Plum and Simon
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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 and 46.2-1061 of the Code of Virginia are 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 emergency medical services agency 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.

§ 46.2-1061. Sirens or exhaust whistles on emergency vehicles.

Every law-enforcement vehicle, and every vehicle authorized to be equipped with warning lights pursuant to §§ 46.2-1022 and, 46.2-1023, and 46.2-1024 shall be equipped with a siren, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to give automatically intermittent signals. Such devices shall be of types not prohibited by the Superintendent.