HB106: Warning lights; use of red or red and white lights by NASA's Wallops Flight Facility vehicles.

HOUSE BILL NO. 106
Offered January 11, 2006
Prefiled December 22, 2005
A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1023 of the Code of Virginia, relating to flashing red or red and white warning lights on certain vehicles.
Patron-- Lewis

Referred to Committee on Transportation

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 46.2-1023 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1023. Flashing red or red and white warning lights.

Fire apparatus, forest warden vehicles, ambulances, rescue and life-saving vehicles, vehicles of the Department of Emergency Management, vehicles of the Department of Environmental Quality, vehicles of county, city, or town Departments of Emergency Management, vehicles of the Office of Emergency Medical Services, animal warden vehicles, and vehicles used by security personnel of the Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Bassett-Walker, Inc., Tultex Corporation, the Winchester Medical Center, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallops Flight Facility, and, within those areas specified in their orders of appointment, by special conservators of the peace and policemen for certain places appointed pursuant to §§ 19.2-13 and 19.2-17 may be equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights of types approved by the Superintendent.