CHAPTER 16

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-262 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to rear lamps on vehicles, trailers or semitrailers being drawn behind
other vehicles.

[H 83]

Approved February 10, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.1-262 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted

as follows:
§ 46.1-262. Every motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which is being
drawn at the end of one or more other vehicles, or motorcycles shall carry
at the rear a lamp capable of exhibiting a red light plainly visible in clear
weather from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle
and such rear lamp shall be constructed and so mounted in its relation to
the rear license plate as to illuminate by a white light such license plate so
that the same may be read from a distance of fifty feet to the rear of such
vehicle; or a separate white light shall be so mounted as to illuminate and
make visible such rear license from a distance of fifty feet to the rear of
such vehicle, such rear light or special white light to be of a type that has
been approved by the Superintendent.

In any instance where the rear lamp is to be installed on a boat
trailer and the boat extends beyond the end of the trailer or to the end of
the trailer, an approved portable light assembly or assemblies may be
attached to the exposed rear of the boat, provided such installation com-
plies with the visibility requirements of this section.