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56 GENERAL ORDINANCES 221 nary conditions of use comply with the requirements of this section may after notice to the manufacturer thereof suspend or revoke the certificate of approval issued therefor until or unless such head lamp device is resubmitted to and retested by an author- ized testing agency and is found to meet the requirements of this section. The commissioner may at the time of the retest pur- chase in the open market and submit the testing agency one or more sets of such approved head lamp device and if such device upon such retest fails to meet the requirements of this section the commissioner may revoke the certificate of approval of such device. Sec. 489(56). Lights on parked vehicles. Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a highway whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in subsection forty-nine there shall be displayed upon such vehicle one or more lamps projecting a white light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle and projecting a red or yellow light visi- ble under like conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear except that no lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when parked in accordance with this and other subsections upon any highway where there is sufficient light to reveal any persons within a distance of two hundred feet upon such high- ways. Sec. 489(57). Red or green light visible from in front of vehicle prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move any ve- hicle upon a highway with any red or green light thereon visible from directly in front thereof. Sec. 489(58). Signal devices. (a) Any motor vehicle which is so constructed or carries a load in such manner as to prevent the hand and arm signal de- scribed in this section from being visible both to the front and rear of such vehicle shall be equipped with a mechanical or elec- trical signal device which meets the requirements of this section and is of a type approved by the Director of the Division of Mo- tor Vehicles. 222 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE (b) Every device intended to give a signal of intention to turn or stop a vehicle shall give a signal plainly visible at all times from a distance of at least one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle upon which it is used. (c) The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles is au- thorized to adopt and enforce rules and regulations not incon- sistent with this section governing the construction, location, and operation of signal devices and the color of lights which may be used in any such electric devices. The Director is authorized to accept a certificate of the United States bureau of standards of some other recognized testing laboratory having an arrangement with the said bureau by which appeal may be made to it in case of dispute as to the findings of such other laboratory, which cer- tificate certifies that a signal device is of a type which has been found to meet the regulations of the Director with reference thereto. (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, either separately or as a part of the equipment of a vehicle, or to use upon a vehicle on a highway any signal device intended to give notice of intention to turn or stop the vehicle upon which it is used unless meeting the requirements of this section and of a type first approved by the Director. TITLE 3. HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SIGNS. Sec. 489(59). Local traffic signs. The Mayor or City Manager may cause appropriate signs to be erected and maintained, designating residence and business districts, highways and steam or interurban railway grade cross- ings and such other signs as may be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and to control traffic. Sec. 489(60). Other than official signs prohibited. No unauthorized person shall erect or maintain upon any high- way any warning or direction sign, marker, signal or light in imi- tation of any official sign, marker, signal or light erected under the provisions* of this section, and no person shall erect or main - GENERAL ORDINANCES 223 tain upon any highway any traffic or highway sign or signal bear- ing thereon any commercial advertising, provided nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the erection or main- tenance of signs, markers, or signals thereon the name of an or- ganization authorized to erect the same by the State Highway Commission, Mayor or City Manager. Sec. 489(61). Injuring signs. It shall be unlawful to deface, injure, knock down or remove any sign legally posted as provided in this section. TITLE 4. PENALTIES. Sec. 489(62). Penalties for Misdemeanor. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions of this section. Every person convicted for a violation of any of the provi- sions of this section for which no other penalty is provided shall for a first conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than $2.50 nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprison- ment in jail for not less than one nor more than ten days; for second such conviction within one year such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for not less than one nor more than twenty days, or by both such fine and imprison- ment; upon a third or subsequent conviction within one year such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty- five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprison- ment in jail for not less than ten days nor more than six months. Where, in this section, in any case, it is provided that a fine or jail sentence may be imposed it shall be construed to mean that both the fine and jail sentence may be imposed. Sec. 489(63). Penalty for reckless driving. Every person convicted of reckless driving, under subsection two of this section shall be punished for a first violation by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dol - 224 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE Jars, or by confinement in jail not to exceed thirty days, or both. For conviction for subsequent violations, a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or he may be further punished by imprisonment in jail for a period of not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec. 489(64). Penalty for failure to stop in event of accident involving personal injury. Every person convicted of violating subdivision (a) of sub- section thirty, relative to the duty to stop in the event of personal injury accidents, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. TITLE 5. PROCEDURE UPON ARREST, REPORTS, DISPOSITION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES. Sec. 489(65). Appearance upon arrest. (a) Whenever any person is arrested for a violation of any provision of this section the arresting officer, shall, except as other- wise provided in this subsection, take the name and address of such person and the license number of his motor vehicle and issue a summons or otherwise notify him in writing to appear at a time and place, to be specified in such summons or notice, such time to be at least 5 days after such arrest unless the person arrested shall demand an earlier hearing, and such person shall, if he so de- sire, have a right to have immediate hearing or a hearing within 24 hours at a convenient hour, at the next session of the Civil and Police Justice Court. Such officer shall thereupon and upon the giving by such person of his written promise to appear at such time and place forthwith release him from custody. Any person refusing to give such written promise to appear shall be taken immediately by the arresting officer before the nearest or most accessible court having jurisdiction under this section. 1 1 1 1 1