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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>366395</law_id><section_number>46.2-935</section_number><catch_line>Regulation by ordinance in counties, cities, and towns</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="101" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Regulation of Traffic</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="19" identifier="16">Pedestrians</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns may enact <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> requiring pedestrians to obey signs and signals erected on <span class="dictionary">highways</span> therein for the direction and control of traffic, to obey the <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers</span> engaged in directing traffic on such <span class="dictionary">highways</span>, and may provide penalties not exceeding those of a <span class="dictionary">traffic infraction</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-250; 1950, p. 942; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-241; 1968, c. 165; 1989, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
