Friday, September 5, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB650: School buses; maximum speed limit allowed.
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 forty-five
45 miles per hour or the minimum speed
allowable, whichever is greater, on any highway where the maximum speed limit
is fifty-five 55 miles per hour or less, and fifty-five 55 miles
per hour on all interstate highways and on other highways where the maximum
speed limit is more than fifty-five 55 miles
per hour. However, for any such vehicle which 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.
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