CODE OF VIRGINIA

MINIMUM SPEED LIMITS (§ 46.2-877)

No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the
normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary
for safe operation or in compliance with law.Whenever the Commissioner of
Highways or local authorities within their respective jurisdictions determine on
the basis of a traffic engineering and traffic investigation that slow speeds on
any part of a highway consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of
traffic, the Commissioner or such local authority may determine and declare a
minimum speed limit to be set forth on signs posted on such highway below which
no person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in
compliance with law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-212; 1950, p. 881; 1952, c. 666; 1954, c. 244; 1956,
c. 364; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-193; 1960, c. 153; 1962, c. 307; 1964, cc. 118,
408; 1966, c. 85; 1968, c. 641; 1972, cc. 89, 546, 553, 608; 1974, c. 528; 1977,
c. 577; 1978, c. 605; 1980, c. 347; 1989, c. 727.