Efficiency of service braking system.
Norfolk City Code § 25-42
in effectSec. 25-42. - Efficiency of service braking system.
On a dry, hard, approximately level stretch of highway, free from loose material, the service braking system shall be capable of stopping a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles at all times and under all conditions of loading, at a speed of twenty (20) miles per hour, within the following distances:
(1) Passenger motor vehicles, except buses and antique vehicles, twenty-five (25) feet.
(2) Buses, trucks and tractor trucks, forty (40) feet.
(3) Motor vehicles registered or qualified to be registered as antique vehicles, when equipped with two-wheel brakes, forty-five (45) feet, and with four-wheel brakes, twenty-five (25) feet.
(4) All combinations of vehicles, fifty (50) feet.
(5) Motorcycles, thirty (30) feet.
(Code 1958, §§ 29-761, 29-762)
Source: City of Norfolk, Virginia, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/va/norfolk/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COCI_CH25MOVECO_ARTIIVEEQ_DIV1GE_S25-42EFSEBRSYFetched: 11/1/2026