CHAPTER 87

4n Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-206 of the Code of Virgin
to special regulations applicable on streets and highways
traffic.

Approved February 20, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
. That § 46.1-206 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
is follows:

§ 46.1-206. Whenever any highway has been divided i:
marked lanes for traffic, drivers of vehicles shall obey the following
regulations:

(a) *Any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic
at the time and place and under the conditions existing shall *be driven
in the lane nearest the right hand edge or curb of the highway when
such lane is available for travel except when overtaking and passing
another vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or as permitted in
paragraph (d) of this section;

(b) <A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as is practicable entirely
within a single lane and shall not be moved from such lane until the driver
has * ascertained that such movement can be made with sdfety ;

(c) Upon a highway which is divided into three lanes a vehicle
shall not be driven in the center lane except when overtaking and
passing another vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or unless such
center lane is at the time allocated exclusively to traffic moving in the
direction the vehicle is proceeding and is signposted or marked to give
notice of such allocation;

(d) The State Highway Commission, or local authorities, with re-
spect to highways under their jurisdiction, may designate right hand
lanes for slow moving traffic and when such lanes are signposted or
marked to give notice of such designation a vehicle may be driven
in any lane allocated to traffic moving in the direction such vehicle is
proceeding, but when traveling within such inside lanes vehicles shall
be driven at approximately the speed authorized in such lanes and speed
Shall not unnecessarily be decreased so as to block, hinder or retard
traffic;

(e) Wherever a highway is marked with double traffic lines con-
sisting of a solid line immediately adjacent to a broken line, no vehicle
shall be driven to the left of such line if the solid line is on the right
of the broken line, except that it shall be lawful to make a left turn for the
purpose of entering or leaving a public, private or commercial road or
entrance;

(f) Wherever a highway is marked with double traffic lines con-
sisting of two immediately adjacent solid lines, no vehicle shall be driven
to the left of such lines, except that it shall be lawful to make a left
turn for the purpose of entering or leaving a public, private or com-
mercial road or entrance.