CHAPTER 99

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and
rules therefor.

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Approved March 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-299. Requirements of such devices; rules and regulations.—
(a) Every device intended and used to give a signal of intention to turn
or to stop a vehicle shall be so constructed and so installed as to give a
signal plainly visible in clear weather and under normal traffic conditions
from a distance of at least one hundred feet to the rear and one hundred
feet to the front of the vehicle, except that a stop signal need be visible
only to the rear; and provided that no front signal shall be required on
vehicles manufactured or assembled before January first, nineteen hundred
and forty-three.

(b) The Superintendent may adopt and enforce rules and regulations
not inconsistent with this and the preceding section (§ 46.1-298) governing
the construction, location and operation of signal devices and the color
of lights which may be used in any such signal device, provided that
nothing contained herein shall prohibit the requiring of an electrical or
mechanical signal device on any vehicle the driver of which is prevented
by any reason from giving the hand and arm signal required in § 46.1-217.

(c) Motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, when * temporarily
stopped on the traveled or paved portion of the highway so as to create a
trafic hazard shall use all four turn signals simultaneously to signal
approaching motorists of the existing hazard whenever such vehicle 1s
equipped with a device which will cause the four turn signals to flash
simultaneously. All four signals may be flashed simultaneously on a vehicle
stopped at the scene of a traffic hazard, but im no event shall all four
signals be flashed simultaneously while the vehicle 1s in motion.