[Adopted 8-4-1969]
A traffic school shall be established at the
Southwest Virginia Community College, Tazewell County, Virginia, at
which instruction shall be given concerning laws and ordinances for
regulation of vehicular traffic, safe operation of vehicles and such
other subjects as may from time to time be prescribed.
Said school shall be under the control and supervision
of the President and the Local College Board of Directors of Southwest
Virginia Community College, who shall prescribe the days and hours
for the operation of the school, and the instructors shall be persons
found to be qualified by said President and Local College Board of
Directors of Southwest Virginia Community College. It is further provided
that courses of instruction shall be for a minimum of eight hours
of classroom instruction, to be taught in a three-week sequence, beginning
the first week of each month.
[Amended 4-7-1997]
In accordance with § 46.2-1314 of
the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, any court in Buchanan County,
Virginia, including municipal or town courts, having jurisdiction
of offenses covered by Articles 1 through 6 (§§ 46.2-801
to 46.2-1239) of Chapter 4 of Title 46.2 of the Code of Virginia of
1950, as amended, or ordinances of Buchanan County or any town or
city within Buchanan County regulating traffic is authorized, in addition
to or in lieu of the prescribed penalties, to require a person found
guilty or not innocent of a violation of any such statute or ordinance
to attend such traffic school.
No person not a resident of this County shall
be required to attend the school hereby created, but in the event
that the county or city in which the violator is a resident has established
or designated a traffic school, such violator may be required to attend
such traffic school for such a period of time as the court may direct.
Failure to abide by the order of the court shall
constitute and be punishable as contempt of such court.
