Chap. 174.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 17, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29,
1932, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauf-
feurs’ License Act, said section relating to revocations and suspensions of
operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses, and the conditions under which such licenses
may be restored. [H B 89}

Approved March 12, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seventeen, as heretofore amended, of chapter three hundred and
eighty-five of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Operators’
and Chauffeurs’ License Act, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 17. Mandatory suspension or revocation of license by the
division.—(a) The division shall forthwith revoke the license of any
person upon receiving a record of the conviction of such person of any
of the following crimes, committed in violation of either a State law or
of a valid town, city or county ordinance, paralleling and substantially
conforming to a like State law and to all changes and amendments of
such State law.

(1) Voluntary or involuntary manslaughter resulting from the
operation of a motor vehicle.

(2) Driving a vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of
intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug.

(3) Perjury or the making of a false affidavit to the division under
this act or any other law of this State requiring the registration of
motor vehicles or regulating their operation on highways.

(4) Any crime punishable as a felony under the motor vehicle
laws of this State or any other felony in the commission of which a
motor vehicle is used.

(5) Conviction or forfeiture of bail upon two charges of reckless
driving all within the preceding twelve months.

(6) A conviction of a driver of a motor vehicle, involved in an
accident resulting in the death or injury of another person, upon a
charge of failing to stop and disclose his identity at the scene of the
accident.

(b) The division upon receiving a record of the conviction of any
person upon a charge of operating a motor vehicle while the license of
such person is suspended or revoked, shall immediately extend the
period of such first suspension or revocation for an additional like
period.

(c) No person whether a resident of this State or not, whose
operator’s or chauffeur’s license, or whose right to operate a motor
vehicle in this State, is hereafter revoked by reason of conviction by
any court of competent jurisdiction in this or any other State, of any
offense mentioned in the first, second, fifth or sixth paragraphs of this
section, committed in violation of any State law or in violation of any
valid town, city or county ordinance paralleling and substantially
conforming to a like State law and to all changes and amendments of
such State law, shall have his license restored, nor shall he operate any
motor vehicle upon the highways of this State until such person has
first proven to the satisfaction of the Director of the Division of Motor
Vehicles, his ability to respond in damages which may thereafter be
adjudged against him on account of accidents resulting from his
ownership or operation of a motor vehicle to the amount of five
thousand dollars for personal injury to or death of one person as the
result of one accident, and to the amount of ten thousand dollars for
personal injury to or the death of more than one person as the result
of one accident, and to the amount of one thousand dollars for damages
to property as the result of one accident; and the filing by him with
the said director of either an adequate liability insurance policy, or a
written certificate in a form approved by the director of an insurance
company duly authorized to do business within this State that it has
issued to the person furnishing such proof and named as the insured in
an adequate automobile liability insurance policy, which at the date
of the issuance of the certificate is in full force and effect, or a bond
with surety to be approved by the director, shall be sufficient proof of
his ability to so respond in damages. In the event the said insurance
policy or bond should at any time within five years from and after the
date of the date of the termination of such revocation or suspension,
or during the period for which such suspension has been extended,
become ineffective, the said director shall forthwith revoke such
license. Any license revoked or suspended under the provisions of this
section shall be restored by the Director of the Division of Motor
Vehicles at the end of five years from and after the date of the ter-
mination of such revocation or suspension, or at the end of the period
for which any such suspension or revocation has been extended, which-
ever shall be later.