Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB736: Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.2-862 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-862. Exceeding speed limit.
A person shall be guilty of reckless
driving who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the
Commonwealth (i) at a speed of twenty miles per
hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limit where
the applicable speed limit is thirty miles per hour or less, (ii) at a speed of
sixty miles per hour or more where the applicable maximum speed limit is
thirty-five miles per hour, (iii) at a speed of twenty miles per hour or more
in excess of the applicable maximum speed limits where the applicable maximum
speed limit is forty miles per hour or more, or (iv)
in excess of eighty miles per hour regardless of the applicable maximum speed
limit is guilty of reckless driving.
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