                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES ON HIGHWAYS; DRIVERS TO OBEY TRAFFIC CONTROL
DEVICES; ENFORCEMENT OF SECTION (§ 46.2-830)

The Commissioner of Highways may classify, designate, and mark state highways
and provide a uniform system of traffic control devices for such highways under
the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. Such system of traffic control devices
shall correlate with and, so far as possible, conform to the system adopted in
other states.
		All drivers of vehicles shall obey lawfully erected traffic control devices.
		No provision of this section relating to the prohibition of disobeying traffic
control devices or violating local traffic control devices shall be enforced
against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation,
any such traffic control device is not in proper position and sufficiently
legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-184; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-173; 1970, c. 163; 1976, c.
184; 1979, c. 604; 1981, c. 585; 1989, c. 727; 1994, c. 280; 1997, c. 881; 2013,
cc. 128, 400, 585, 646.