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To amend and reordain City Code ? 27-132, concerning the use of photo speed monitoring devices in highway work zones and school crossing zones and penalties, for the purpose of adding high-risk intersection segments authorized by Va. Code ? 46.2-882.1.
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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
? 1. That section 27-132 of the Code of City of Richmond (2020), as amended, be and is hereby amended and reordained as follows:
Sec. 27-132. Use of photo speed monitoring devices in highway work zones [and], school crossing zones, and high-risk intersection segments; penalty
(a) For purposes of this section, "highway work zone" has the same meaning ascribed to it in Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-878.1. The term "active," when modifying the term "highway work zone," means when any workers are present due to emergency or pursuant to an approved work in street permit. "Photo speed monitoring device" means equipment that uses radar or LIDAR-based speed detection and produces one or more photographs, microphotographs, videotapes, or other recorded images of vehicles. "School crossing zone" has the same meaning ascribed to it in Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-873. The term "active," when modifying the term "school crossing zone," means the time when the signs required by Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-873 are in operation pursuant to Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-873. The term "high-risk intersection segment" has the same meaning ascribed to it in Code of Virginia ? 46.2-882.1.
(b) The Department of Police may install and operate photo speed monitoring devices, within the municipal boundaries of the city, in school crossing zones for the purposes of recording violations of Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-873, [and] in highway work zones for the purposes of recording violations of Code of Virginia, ? 46.2-878.1, and in high-risk intersection segments for the purpose of recording vehicle speed violations, provided that the Department certifies that a traffic fatality has occurr...
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