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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54990</law_id><section_number>46.2-835</section_number><catch_line>Right turn on steady red light after stopping</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-968.1</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="8">Regulation of Traffic</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Traffic Signs, Lights, and Markings</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Traffic lights; penalty" href="/46.2-833/">46.2-833</a>, except where a <span class="dictionary">traffic control device</span> is placed prohibiting turns on steady red, vehicular traffic facing a steady red circular signal, after coming to a full stop, may cautiously enter the <span class="dictionary">intersection</span> and make a right turn.
		Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Traffic lights; penalty" href="/46.2-833/">46.2-833</a>, except where a <span class="dictionary">traffic control device</span> is placed permitting turns on a steady red, vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow, after coming to a full stop, shall remain standing until a signal to proceed is shown.
		Such turning traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent <span class="dictionary">crosswalk</span> and to other traffic using the <span class="dictionary">intersection</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-203; 1952, c. 671; 1954, c. 381; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-184; 1964, c. 613; 1966, c. 607; 1970, cc. 515, 736; 1972, cc. 4, 234, 454; 1974, c. 347; 1976, cc. 30, 31; 1977, c. 9; 1978, c. 300; 1981, c. 163; 1989, c. 727; 2013, cc. 128, 400.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
