CHAPTER 128

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-215 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to actions required of motor vehicle drivers when turning at inter-

sections.
[H 3826)
Approved March 9, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. ane § 46.1-215 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

Ԥ 46.1-215. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an inter-
section or other location on any highway except as prohibited by § 46.1-214
Or any local ordinance enacted pursuant to § 46.1-180 * shall do so as

ollows:
(a) Right turn: Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn
shall be made as close as practicable to the right hand curb or edge of
the roadway.

(b) Left turns on two-way roadways: At any intersection where traffic
is permitted to move in both directions on each roadway entering the inter-
section, an approach for a left turn shall be made in that portion of the
right half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and by passing
to the right of such center line where it enters the intersection and after
entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to leave the
intersection to the right of the center line of the roadway being entered.
Whenever practicable the left turn shall be made in that portion of the
intersection to the left of the center of the intersection.

(c) Left turns on other than two-way roadways: At any intersection
where traffic is restricted to one direction on one or more of the roadways,
and at any crossover from one roadway of a divided highway to another
roadway thereof on which traffic moves in the opposite direction the driver
of a vehicle intending to turn left at any such intersection or crossover
shall approach the intersection or crossover in the extreme left-hand lane
lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such
vehicle and after entering the intersection or crossover the left turn shall
be made so as to leave the intersection or crossover, as nearly as practicable,
in the left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction
upon the roadway being entered.

(d) Local authorities having the power to regulate traffic in their
respective jurisdictions may cause markers, buttons, or signs to be placed
within or adjacent to intersections and thereby require and direct that a
different course from that specified in this section be traveled by vehicles
turning at any intersection, and when markers, buttons, or signs are so
placed no driver of a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at an intersection other
than as directed and required by such markers, buttons, or signs.