CHAPTER 676

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 38-279 and 83-817, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, prohibiting certain acts on or near the highways
and providing penalties for violations. TH 698}

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: oo.

1. That §§ 33-279 and 83-317, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 33-279. Any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who shall:

(1) * Cut or injure a tree within * fifty feet of a road * so as to
render it liable to fall and leave it standing; .

(2) Knowingly and wilfully, without lawful authority, break down,
destroy or injure any bridge, bench or log placed across a stream for the
accommodation of pedestrians or any sign board, mile-stone or post placed
for the direction of travelers;

(8) Obstruct any road or any ditch made for the purpose of draining
any such road;

(4) Wilfully ride any horse, mule or other animal upon any sidewalk,
constructed of any material other than dirt or earth, along any highway
through any unincorporated village.

§ 33-817. No advertisement or advertising structure shall be erected,
maintained or operated:

(1) Within five hundred feet of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the
Colonial National Parkway or the Mount Vernon Boulevard or within
five hundred feet of any public cemetery, public park reservation, public
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playground, national forest or State forest, outside the limits of any
municipality ;

(2) Which involves motion or rotation of any part of the structure
or displays intermittent lights within one hundred feet of the nearest edge
of the pavement of any highway;

(3) Which uses the words “stop” or “danger” prominently displayed
or presents or implies the need or requirement of stopping or the exist-
ence of danger, or which is a copy or imitation of official signs;

(5) Which advertises any county, city, town, village, historic place
or shrine without the consent, in writing, of such county, city, town or
village or of the owner of such historic place or shrine;

(6) Which is mobile and is designed to and effectively does distract
the attention of passing motorists by flashing lights, loud and blatant
noises or movable objects;

__, (1) Which involve red, green or amber lights or reflectorized mate-
rial and which resemble traffic signal lights or traffic control signs;

_ _ (8) Within fifteen feet of the nearest edge of the pavement of any
highway;

(9) At a public road intersection in such manner as would obstruct
the clear vision in either direction between a point on the center line of
the side road twenty feet from the nearest edge of the pavement of the
main road and points on the main road four hundred feet distant, meas-
ured along the nearest edge of the pavement of the main road;

(10) At a grade intersection of a public road and a railroad in such
manner as would obstruct the clear vision in either direction within tri-
angular areas formed by 1) a point at the center of the railroad-public
road intersection, 2) a point on the public road four hundred feet from the
center of the ratlroad-public road intersection as measured along the
center of the public road and 8) a point on the railroad five hundred feet
from the center of the railroad-public road intersection as measured along
the center of the railroad;

(11) At or near any curve in a road in such a manner as to obstruct
the clear vision of traffic from any one point on such curve to any other
point not more than four hundred feet apart, as measured between each
point from the nearest edge of the pavement.