CHAPTER 114

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-279 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to dimming headlights under certain circumstances.
H 95]

Approved March 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

l. That § 46-279 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:
§ 46-279. Whenever a vehicle is being operated upon a highway or
a portion thereof which is sufficiently lighted to reveal any person or
object upon such way at a distance of three hundred and fifty feet ahead,
the operator of such vehicle shall use one of the lowermost distributions
of light or shall dim the headlamps if the vehicle has single beam lamps.
Whenever a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within five hundred
feet it shall be the duty of the operator of such vehicle to use one of the
lowermost distributions of light so aimed that glaring rays are not pro-
jected into the eyes of the oncoming driver or to dim the headlamps if
the vehicle has single beam lamps. Whenever the operator of any motor
vehicle approaches from the rear or follows within two hundred feet of
another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, such operator shall use
the lowermost distributions of light or shall dim the headlamps if the
vehicle has single beam lamps.