Chap. 176.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled “an
act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle opera-
tors, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain
causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of
motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for viola-
tions of certain provisions of this act,” approved March 29, 1932, as hereto-
fore amended, in relation to the operator of a motor vehicle displaying his

license upon demand. [H B 111]
Approved March 13, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifteen of an act entitled “an act to provide for the licensing of
chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension
and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on
certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the
public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain
provisions of this act,” approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as
read as follows:

Section 15. Licenses to be signed and carried.—(a) Every person
licensed as an operator and every person licensed as a chauffeur shall
write his usual signature with pen and ink in the space provided for
that purpose on the license certificate issued to him immediately upon
receipt of such certificate, and such license shall not be valid untt
the certificate is so signed.

(b) The licensee shall have such license in his immediate posses-
sion at all times when driving a motor vehicle and shall display the
same upon demand of any person charged with the duty of enforcing
the motor vehicle laws of this State. Any person violating the provisions
of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
punished by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than ten
($10.00) dollars; provided, however, if any person when summoned
to appear before a court for failure to display his license upon such
demand being made of him, shall present to the officer making such
demand before the return date of the summons a proper license duly
issued to him prior to the time of such demand, or shall appear in
pursuance of such summons and produce before the court a proper
license duly issued to him prior to the time of such demand, he shall
in either event be deemed to have complied with the provisions of
this section.