SB992: Red or red/white warning lights; updates existing authorization for use thereof on security vehicle.
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 Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock CompanyNorthrop
Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc.,
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. Such warning lights may be of types
constructed within turn signal housings or motorcycle headlight housings,
subject to approval by the Superintendent.