Virginia Vehicle

Virginia Vehicle

Legislation Enacted

Among legislation enacted by the 1968 General Assembly concerning motor vehicles, and recommended by local authorities for publication, are the following:

Effective June 28, 1968 all motorcycles designed to carry more than one person shall be equipped with a foot rest for the passenger. The operator of a motorcycle shall wear safety glasses or goggles or have his motorcycle equipped with safety glass or a windshield. It shall be reckless driving for any motor vehicle, including any motorcycle to be driven or to travel parallel to another vehicle in a lane designed for one vehicle. On and after January 1, 1969 no person shall operate any motorcycle unless such person shall pass a special examination, including road test and written material.

Any police vehicle, fire fighting equipment, including State forest warden vehicles not to exceed two hundred in number, any rescue vehicle, ambulance or life saving vehicle may be equipped with a siren and flashing emergency lights. (School buses may be equipped with fiashing emergency lights also.) Vehicles used for towing disabled vehicles or in constructing, maintaining and repairing highways or utilities on or along public highways may be equipped with flashing, blinking or alternating amber warning lights.

A member of any fire department or volunteer rescue squad may equip one vehicle owned by him with a flashing or steady-burning red light. Blue lights, steady or fiashing, shall be reserved for civil defense vehicles. All above lights shall only be used in emergency calls and operations.

It shall be unlawful to operate any motor vehicle registered in Virginia when equipped with one or more tires which have two adjacent tread grooves worn to less than two-thirty-seconds of an inch at three equally spaced intervals around the circumference of the tire. This also applies to all motorcycles and dual wheel vehicles except