CHAPTER 473

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-250 of the Code of Virginia
to permit cities of the first class to adopt ordinances regulat-
ing the use of certain highways and streets by pedestrians.

S 279]

Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-250 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reen-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 46-250. Special rules in certain cities—The councils of
cities * of the first class may enact ordinances requiring pedes-
trians to obey signs and signals erected on highways or streets
therein for the direction and control of travel and traffic and to
obey the orders of police officers engaged in directing travel and
traffic on such highways or streets and may provide penalties for
violating such ordinances by fines not exceeding five dollars for
each offense.