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1998 SESSION

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SENATE BILL NO. 258
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Transportation
on February 24, 1998)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Norment)
A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1304 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local regulation of trucks and buses.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-1304 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1304. Local regulation of trucks and buses.

The governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns may by ordinance, whenever in their judgment conditions so require:

1. Prohibit the use of trucks, except for the purpose of receiving loads or making deliveries on certain designated streets under their jurisdiction;

2. Restrict the use of trucks passing through the city or town to such street or streets under their jurisdiction as may be designated in such ordinance.

Any city having a population of at least 11,200 but no more than 15,000 may restrict the operation of nonscheduled buses, other than school buses, over designated streets under its jurisdiction.