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1995 SESSION


CHAPTER 122
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-1020 of the Code of Virginia, relating to lights on motor vehicles.
[H 1992]
Approved March 8, 1995

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-1020 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1020. Other permissible lights.

Any motor vehicle may be equipped with one or two fog lights, one or two auxiliary driving lights if so equipped by the manufacturer, two daytime running lights, two side lights of not more than six candlepower, an interior light or lights of not more than fifteen candlepower each, and signal lights.

The provision of this section limiting interior lights to no more than fifteen candlepower shall not apply to (i) alternating, blinking, or flashing colored emergency lights mounted inside law-enforcement motor vehicles which may otherwise legally be equipped with such colored emergency lights, or (ii) flashing shielded red or red and white lights, authorized under § 46.2-1024, mounted inside vehicles owned by members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer rescue squads or owned or used by professional fire fighters.

Unless such lighting device is both covered and unlit, no motor vehicle which is equipped with any lighting device other than lights required or permitted in this article, required or approved by the Superintendent, or required by the federal Department of Transportation shall be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth. Nothing in this section shall permit any vehicle, not otherwise authorized, to be equipped with colored emergency lights, whether blinking or steady-burning.