Virginia Tech Police Department

New Laws

An additional drug has been added to those that are prohibited by state law, as well as an ordinance in the Town of Blacksburg and a ban on the use of text messaging and email while driving.  They are as follows:

 

  1. The use of handheld personal communications devices to send or read text messages or email while operation a motor vehicle is a traffic violation in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Code of Virginia § 46.2-1078.1.

  2. Salvia Divinorum is a felony to possess, purchase or transport anywhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Code of Virginia § 18.2-250.

  3. The Town of Blacksburg has enacted a mandatory helmet ordinance for all moped users.  Town of Blacksburg Ordinance 1497. 

 

 

 

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