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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 676
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-871 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school buses.
[H 1391]
Approved April 10, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-871 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-871. Maximum speed limit for school buses.

The maximum speed limit for school buses shall be thirty-five forty-five miles per hour or the minimum speed allowable, whichever is greater, on any highway other than an interstate highway, if the vehicle is being used as a school bus carrying children, and fifty-five miles per hour on interstate highways. However, for any such vehicle which neither takes on nor discharges children between its point of origin and point of destination, the maximum speed limit shall be forty-five miles per hour on any highway other than an interstate highway, and fifty-five miles per hour on interstate highways takes on or discharges children, the maximum speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour between the first stop and the last stop, not including the school. The school and the designated school bus parking area shall not be considered the first or last stop.