2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-1044 - Cleats, etc., on tires; chains; tires with studs

46.2-1044. Cleats, etc., on tires; chains; tires with studs.

No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway shall have on its periphery anyblock, stud, flange, cleat, spike, or any other protuberance of any materialother than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface ofthe tire. It shall be permissible, however, to use on the highways farmmachinery having protuberances which will not injure the highway and to usetire chains of reasonable proportions when required for safety because ofsnow, ice, or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to slide or skid.It shall also be permissible to use on any vehicle whose gross weight doesnot exceed 10,000 pounds tires with studs which project no more thanone-sixteenth of an inch beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tirewhen compressed if the studs cover no more than three percent of the tractionsurface of the tire.

The use of studded tires shall be permissible only from October 15 to April15.

(Code 1950, 46-300; 1958, c. 541, 46.1-296; 1968, c. 1; 1970, c. 263;1972, c. 39; 1974, c. 368; 1976, c. 315; 1978, c. 259; 1989, c. 727.)