46.2-1024 - Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning lights.
§ 46.2-1024. Flashing or steady-burning red or red and white warning lights.
Any member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer rescuesquad, any ambulance driver employed by a privately owned ambulance service,and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him with no more thantwo flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warninglights of types approved by the Superintendent. Warning lights permitted bythis section shall be lit only when answering emergency calls. A vehicleequipped with lighting devices as authorized in this section shall beoperated by a police chaplain only if he has successfully completed a courseof training in the safe operation of a motor vehicle under emergencyconditions and a certificate attesting to such successful completion, signedby the course instructor, is carried at all times in the vehicle whenoperated by the police chaplain to whom the certificate applies.
(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.)