Chap. 490.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 62, as amended, of Chapter
342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known
as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, relating to speed limits on aie

Approved April 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixty-two, as amended of chapter three hundred
forty-two of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-two,
approved March twenty-six, nineteen hundred thirty-two, and known
s the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

Section 62. Restrictions as to speed; other acts declared misde-
meanors.—Any person who shall

(a) Drive any vehicle upon a highway in this State at such speed
as unnecessarily to block, hinder or retard the orderly and safe use of
the highway or so as to cause congestion on the highway, or

(b) Drive upon any highway in this State any motor vehicle at
a speed in excess of

(1) Fifteen miles an hour when passing a school during recess or
while children are going to or leaving school, provided that markers be
placed on the highway so as to indicate the location of such schools, or

(2) Fifteen miles an hour in a business district as defined in this
Code, or

(3) Twenty-five miles an hour in a residential district as defined in
this Code, or

(4) Such speed as may be determined as follows: (i) the State
Highway Commission on all highways maintained by the State Highway
Department or the authorities of cities and towns on all highways main-
tained by them may increase or decrease the speed in business districts
and residential districts as defined and provided for in this Code, provided
such areas or points are clearly indicated by markers or signs and such
speed shall be based upon an engineering and traffic investigation, or
(ii) such speed as shall be fixed by the State Highway Commission on
all highways maintained by the State Highway Department or the
authorities of cities and towns on all highways maintained by them,
for congested areas or curves, right angle turns or other dangerous
points on the highways, when such areas or points are clearly indicated
by markers or signs and such speed shall be based upon an engineering
and traffic investigation, or

(5) Drive anywhere else upon a highway in this State any school
Dus carrying school children to or from school at a speed in excess of
thirty-five miles per hour, or any other passenger carrying bus at
a speed in excess of fifty miles per hour, or any passenger motor vehicle
or motorcycle at a speed in excess of fifty miles per hour, or any other
motor vehicle, including trucks, at a speed in excess of fifty miles per
hour ; provided that on dual lane highways having four or more lanes,
any passenger carrying bus, passenger motor vehicle or motorcycle may
be driven at a speed of not exceeding fifty-five miles per hour unless the
State Highway Commission prescribes a lower rate of speed.

(c) Drive to the left of the center of the street except upon one-way
streets, or

(d) Violate any provisions of the right of way laws, as set forth
in sections seventy-six and seventy-seven of this Code, or

(e) Drive a vehicle out of an alley, lane or building into a street
without first bringing such vehicle to a stop immediately before entering
such street, or

(f) Make a left turn without passing to the right of the center of
the intersection, whether marked or not, or

(g) Make a right turn without keeping close to the curb, or

(h) Coast or operate a motor vehicle with the gears in neutral, or

(i) While operating a vehicle upon any highway, fail or refuse
to control the lights of such vehicle by shifting, depressing, tilting or
dimming the headlight beams thereof so as not to be project into the
eyes of the driver of any oncoming vehicle a glaring or dazzling light, or

(j) Drive any motor vehicle in any county having, according to
the last preceding United States census, more than six hundred inhabi-
tants per square mile, or in any section or zone of such county, at any
speed greater than the applicable maximum speed or speeds, prescribed
therefor pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of section fifty-two
of this Code, by the governing board of such county, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished in accordance
with the provisions of section one hundred eighteen, as from time to
time amended, of the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia.