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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68894</law_id><section_number>46.2-1024</section_number><catch_line>Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning light units</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1020</reference><reference>46.2-829</reference><reference>46.2-861.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Lights and Turn Signals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any member of a fire <span class="dictionary">department</span>, 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 <span class="dictionary">light</span> units of types approved by the <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span>. Warning <span class="dictionary">light</span> units permitted by this section shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicle equipped with warning <span class="dictionary">light</span> 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 <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> 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.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-273; 1954, c. 310; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 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; 2024, cc. 76, 77.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
