2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-834 - Signals by law-enforcement officers and crossing guards

46.2-834. Signals by law-enforcement officers and crossing guards.

A. Law-enforcement officers may assume control of traffic at anyintersection, regardless of whether such intersection is controlled bylights, controlled by other traffic control devices, or uncontrolled.Whenever any law-enforcement officer so assumes control of traffic, alldrivers of vehicles shall obey his signals.

B. Law-enforcement officers and uniformed school crossing guards may assumecontrol of traffic otherwise controlled by lights, and in such event, signalsby such officers and uniformed crossing guards shall take precedence oversuch traffic control devices.

C. Uniformed school crossing guards may control traffic at any marked schoolcrossing, whether such crossing is at an intersection or another location.Uniformed school crossing guards who are supplied by their local schooldivision with hand-held stop signs shall use such signs whenever controllingtraffic as authorized in this subsection.

(Code 1950, 46-203; 1952, c. 671; 1954, c. 381; 1958, c. 541, 46.1-184;1964, c. 613; 1966, c. 607; 1970, cc. 515, 736; 1972, cc. 4, 234, 454; 1974,c. 347; 1976, cc. 30, 31; 1977, c. 9; 1978, c. 300; 1981, c. 163; 1989, c.727; 1994, c. 469; 2001, cc. 56, 71; 2004, c. 575.)