Va. Code § 46.2-1024

Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session through ch. 845

Section 46.2-1024 - Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning light units

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 four flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units of types approved by the Superintendent. Warning light units permitted by this section shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with warning light units 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.

Code 1950, § 46-273; 1954, c. 310; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-267; 1960, cc. 156, 391; 1962, c. 512; 1966, cc. 655, 664; 1968, c. 89; 1972, c. 7; 1974, c. 537; 1976, c. 6; 1977, c. 72; 1978, cc. 311, 357; 1980, c. 337; 1981, c. 338; 1984, cc. 440, 539; 1985, cc. 248, 269, 287, 462; 1986, cc. 124, 127, 229; 1987, cc. 347, 370; 1988, cc. 339, 351; 1989, c. 727; 1992, c. 379; 2003, c. 153; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2017, c. 244.

Amended by Acts 2024 c. 77,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2024.

Amended by Acts 2024 c. 76,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2024.

Amended by Acts 2017 c. 244, § 1, eff. 7/1/2017.

Amended by Acts 2015 c. 503, § 1, eff. 7/1/2015.

Amended by Acts 2015 c. 502, § 1, eff. 7/1/2015.