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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68787</law_id><section_number>46.2-1061</section_number><catch_line>Sirens or exhaust whistles on emergency vehicles</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="7">Horns, Sirens, and Whistles</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span>, every <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> authorized to be equipped with warning <span class="dictionary">lights</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Flashing or steady-burning blue or red, flashing red and blue or blue and white, or red, white, and blue warning lights" href="/46.2-1022/">46.2-1022</a> and <a class="law" title="Flashing red or red and white warning lights" href="/46.2-1023/">46.2-1023</a> 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 <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-291; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-285; 1960, c. 391; 1966, cc. 655, 664, 699; 1968, c. 89; 1980, c. 337; 1989, c. 727; 1990, c. 418.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
