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.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1940 |
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Law Number | 406 |
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Chap. 406.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 61, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26,
1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,
said section relating to reckless driving. [H B 122]
Approved April 1, 1940
1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-one, as heretofore amended, of chapter three hundred and
forty-two of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle
Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 61. Reckless driving.—(a) Irrespective of the maximum
speeds herein provided, any person who drives a vehicle upon a high-
way recklessly, or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be
likely to endanger life, limb or property of any person shall be guilty
of reckless driving. |
(b) Any person who shall
(1) Drive a vehicle when not under proper control, or with in-
adequate or improperly adjusted brakes upon any highway of this
State, or
(2) While driving a vehicle, overtake and pass another vehicle
proceeding in the same direction, upon or approaching the crest of a
grade or upon or approaching a curve in the highway, where the driver’s
view along the highway is obstructed, or
(3) Pass or attempt to pass two other vehicles abreast, moving in
the same direction, or
(4) Overtake and pass any other vehicle proceeding in the same
direction at any steam or electric railway grade crossing, or at any
intersection of highways, or while pedestrians are passing or about to
pass in front of either of such vehicles, unless permitted so to do by a
traffic light or police officer, or
(5) Pass a school bus while taking on or discharging school chil-
dren, whether going in the same or the opposite direction, at a greater
speed than five miles per hour, or
(6) Fail to give adequate and timely signals of intention to turn,
partly turn, slow down, or stop, as required by section seventy-five
of this act, or _.
(7) Exceed a reasonable speed under the circumstances and traffic
conditions existing at the time, or
(8) Fail to bring his vehicle to a stop immediately before entering
a highway from a side road when there is traffic approaching upon such
highway within five hundred feet of such point of entrance, shall be
guilty of reckless driving.
(c) Every person convicted of reckless driving, under this sec-
tion, shall, for the first violation, be punished by a fine of not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in
jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment; for each second or subsequent conviction for the offense of
reckless driving, under this section, committed within twelve months
from the date of a prior conviction for reckless driving, every such
person shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor
more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not less
than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
In addition to the foregoing punishment, any justice or court may
suspend any license issued to such convicted person under an act of
the General Assembly, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-two, and amendments thereof, known, designated
and cited as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, for
a period of not less than ten days nor more than six months, and such
justice or court shall require such convicted person to surrender his
license so suspended. If such person so convicted has not obtained the
license required by the said Act such justice or court may direct in
the judgment of conviction that such person shall not, for such period
of not less than ten days nor more than six months as may be pre-
scribed in the said judgment, drive or operate any motor vehicle in
this State.
It shall be the duty of such justice or court, or the clerk of such
justice or court, to transmit such license to the Director of the Division
of Motor Vehicles, along with the report of such conviction required
to be sent to the division.
If any person shall drive any vehicle upon any highway while his
license is so suspended, or while so forbidden to drive or operate a
motor vehicle in this State, he shall be punished by imprisonment in
jail for a period not less than two days nor more than six months, and
there may be imposed in addition thereto a fine of not more than five
hundred dollars.