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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79580</law_id><section_number>46.2-826</section_number><catch_line>Stop before entering public highway or sidewalk from private road, etc.; yielding right-of-way</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-397</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="8">Regulation of Traffic</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Right-Of-Way</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">driver</span> of a <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> entering a public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> or <span class="dictionary">sidewalk</span> from a private road, driveway, alley, or building shall stop immediately before entering such <span class="dictionary">highway</span> or <span class="dictionary">sidewalk</span> and yield the right-of-way to <span class="dictionary">vehicles</span> approaching on such public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> and to pedestrians or <span class="dictionary">vehicles</span> approaching on such public <span class="dictionary">sidewalk</span>.
		The provisions of this section shall not apply at an <span class="dictionary">intersection</span> of public and private roads controlled by a <span class="dictionary">traffic control device</span>. At any such <span class="dictionary">intersection</span>, all movement of traffic into and through the <span class="dictionary">intersection</span> shall be controlled by the <span class="dictionary">traffic control device</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-240; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-223; 1987, c. 346; 1989, c. 727; 2013, cc. 128, 400.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
