HB1789: Emergency vehicles, privately owned volunteer; requirement for flashing lights and sirens.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1789
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 46.2-1024 and 46.2-1061 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-1024. Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning lights.
Any member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or
volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip
one vehicle owned by him with no more than two
flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights of
types approved by the Superintendent. Warning lights permitted by this section
shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with
lighting devices as authorized in this section shall be operated by a police
chaplain only if he has successfully completed a course of training in the safe
operation of a motor vehicle under emergency conditions and a certificate
attesting to such successful completion, signed by the course instructor, is
carried at all times in the vehicle when operated by the police chaplain to
whom the certificate applies.
§ 46.2-1061. Sirens or exhaust whistles on emergency vehicles.
Every law-enforcement vehicle, and every vehicle authorized
to be equipped with warning lights pursuant to §§ 46.2-1022
and,
46.2-1023, and 46.2-1024
shall be equipped with a siren, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to give
automatically intermittent signals. Such devices shall be of types not
prohibited by the Superintendent.