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bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, or mopeds,3\n\nAnimal-drawn vehicles,4\n\nSelf-propelled machinery or equipment, and5\n\nAnimals led, ridden or driven on the hoof.B\n\nThe termini of any section of controlled access highways, use of which is restricted under the provisions of this section, shall be clearly indicated by a conspicuous marker.C\n\nThis section shall not apply to any vehicle or equipment owned or controlled by the Virginia Department of Transportation, while actually engaged in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of highways or to any vehicle or equipment for which a permit has been obtained for operation on such highway.\n\t\t\tAny person violating a restriction or prohibition imposed pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a traffic infraction.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":276638,"text":"The Commonwealth Transportation Board may, when necessary to promote safety, prohibit the use of controlled access highways or any part 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penalty","url":"\/46.2-808.1\/","token":"46.2\/III\/8\/1\/46.2-808.1","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/46.2-808\/","history_text":"<p>This law was first created in 1964. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 239 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 8 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1966, chapter 365; in 1981, chapter 585; in 1983, chapter 262; in 1989, chapter 727; in 1991, chapter 55; in 2004, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0947\">947<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0973\">973<\/a>; in 2006, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?061+ful+CHAP0529\">529<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?061+ful+CHAP0538\">538<\/a>; in 2007, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0209\">209<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0366\">366<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":230241,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77107,"identifier":"46.2-808","token":"46.2\/III\/8\/1\/46.2-808","url":"\/46.2-808\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-808\/","token":"46.2\/III\/8\/1\/46.2-808","dublin_core":{"Title":"Commonwealth Transportation Board may prohibit certain uses of controlled access highways; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-808","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> The Commonwealth Transportation Board may, when necessary to promote safety, prohibit the use of controlled access <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">highways<\/span><\/span> or any part thereof by any or all of the following: <a id=\"paragraph-276638\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A1\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">1.<\/span> Pedestrians, <a id=\"paragraph-276639\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A1\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A2\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">2.<\/span> Persons riding bicycles, <span class=\"dictionary\">electric power-assisted bicycles<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">electric personal assistive mobility devices<\/span>, or <span class=\"dictionary\">mopeds<\/span>, <a id=\"paragraph-276640\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A2\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A3\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">3.<\/span> Animal-drawn <span class=\"dictionary\">vehicles<\/span>, <a id=\"paragraph-276641\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A3\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A4\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">4.<\/span> Self-propelled machinery or equipment, and <a id=\"paragraph-276642\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A4\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A5\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">5.<\/span> Animals led, ridden or driven on the hoof. <a id=\"paragraph-276643\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#A5\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> The termini of any section of controlled access <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">highways<\/span><\/span>, use of which is restricted under the provisions of this section, shall be clearly indicated by a conspicuous marker. <a id=\"paragraph-276644\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"C\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">C.<\/span> This section shall not apply to any <span class=\"dictionary\">vehicle<\/span> or equipment owned or controlled by the Virginia <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> of Transportation, while actually engaged in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">highways<\/span><\/span> or to any <span class=\"dictionary\">vehicle<\/span> or equipment for which a permit has been obtained for operation on such <span class=\"dictionary\">highway<\/span>.\n\t\t\tAny person violating a restriction or prohibition imposed pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a <span class=\"dictionary\">traffic infraction<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-276645\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-808\/#C\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD MAY PROHIBIT CERTAIN USES OF CONTROLLED ACCESS\nHIGHWAYS; PENALTY (\u00a7 46.2-808)\n\nA. The Commonwealth Transportation Board may, when necessary to promote safety,\nprohibit the use of controlled access highways or any part thereof by any or all\nof the following:\n\n   1. Pedestrians,\n\n   2. Persons riding bicycles, electric power-assisted bicycles, electric\n   personal assistive mobility devices, or mopeds,\n\n   3. Animal-drawn vehicles,\n\n   4. Self-propelled machinery or equipment, and\n\n   5. Animals led, ridden or driven on the hoof.\n\nB. The termini of any section of controlled access highways, use of which is\nrestricted under the provisions of this section, shall be clearly indicated by a\nconspicuous marker.\n\nC. This section shall not apply to any vehicle or equipment owned or controlled\nby the Virginia Department of Transportation, while actually engaged in the\nconstruction, reconstruction, or maintenance of highways or to any vehicle or\nequipment for which a permit has been obtained for operation on such highway.\n\t\t\tAny person violating a restriction or prohibition imposed pursuant to this\nsection shall be guilty of a traffic infraction.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 239, \u00a7 46.1-171.1; 1966, c. 365; 1981, c. 585; 1983, c. 262;\n1989, c. 727; 1991, c. 55; 2004, cc. 947, 973; 2006, cc. 529, 538; 2007, cc.\n209, 366.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}