                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MINIMUM SPEED LIMITS (§ 46.2-877)

No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the
normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary
for safe operation or in compliance with law.
		Whenever the Commissioner of Highways or local authorities within their
respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of a traffic engineering and
traffic investigation that slow speeds on any part of a highway consistently
impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the Commissioner or such
local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit to be set forth
on signs posted on such highway below which no person shall drive a vehicle
except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-212; 1950, p. 881; 1952, c. 666; 1954, c. 244; 1956,
c. 364; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-193; 1960, c. 153; 1962, c. 307; 1964, cc. 118,
408; 1966, c. 85; 1968, c. 641; 1972, cc. 89, 546, 553, 608; 1974, c. 528; 1977,
c. 577; 1978, c. 605; 1980, c. 347; 1989, c. 727.