CHAPTER 583

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-252 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to local parking regulations.
[H 897]

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-252 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 46.1-252. The council or other governing body of any city or town
may, by a general ordinance, provide for the regulation of parking within
its limits, including the right to install and maintain parking meters and
to require the deposit therein of a coin of a denomination to be prescribed
in such ordinance and to determine the time during which a vehicle may
be parked and may authorize the city manager, the director of public
safety. the chief of police or other designated officer within the citv or
town to put the regulations into effect, including specifically the right
and authority to classify vehicles with reference to parking and to desig-
nate the time, place and manner such vehicles may be allowed to park on
city or town streets; and may delegate to the appropriate administrative
official or officials the authority to make and enforce such additional rules
and regulations as parking conditions may require and may prescribe
penalties for failure to conform thereto.

If any such ordinance regulates parking on the Interstate Sys-
tem or the Arterial Network of the Primary System or any extenston
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thereof of the Arterial Network it shall be subject to the approval of the
State Highway Commissioner as to the regulation of parking on the Inter-
state System or the Arterial Network of the Primary System or any
extension of the Arterial Network.

In any prosecution charging a violation of any such ordinance, regu-
lation or rule, proof that the vehicle described in the complaint, summons
or warrant was parked in violation of such ordinance, regulation or rule,
together with proof that the defendant was at the time of such parking
the registered owner of the vehicle, as required by chapter 3 (§ 46.1-41
et seq.) of this title, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption
that such registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked the
vehicle at the place where, and for the time during which, such violation
occurred.