Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2143 of the Code of

Virginia. [H B 243]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-one hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2143. When driver, et cetera, shall keep to the right side
of the roadway; when to signal to person behind him—When the
operator, conductor or driver of any machine approaches a curve,
bend or any place where the roadway is not plainly visible for a
distance of three hundred feet ahead, he shall at all times keep his
machine on the right hand side of the roadway sufficient to allow
ample room on the opposite side for the passage of other machines
or vehicles irrespective of whether another machine or vehicle is ap-
proaching or not.

And when the operator, conductor or driver of any machine in-
tends to stop or turn to the right or left, if there 1s approaching
behind him any vehicle within fifty feet, he shall give a signal, which
will plainly tndicate to any person or persons within fifty feet behind
him his intention to so stop or turn to the right or left.