                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FLASHING OR STEADY-BURNING RED OR RED AND WHITE WARNING LIGHT UNITS (§
46.2-1024)

Any member of a fire department, 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 light units of types approved by the Superintendent. Warning
light units permitted by this section shall be lit only when answering emergency
calls. A vehicle equipped with warning light 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 motor vehicle 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.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-273; 1954, c. 310; 1958, c. 541, § 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.