Chap. 448.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29,
1932, and therein designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License
Act, relating to examination of applicants and expiration of licenses.. [H B 491]

Approved April 6, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
ten, 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
therein designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License
Act, be amended and re-enacted as follows: . -

Section 10. Examination of applicants—(a) The division shall
examine every applicant for an operator’s or chauffeur’s license before
issuing any such license, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b)
of this section. The division shall examine the applicant as to his physical
and mental qualifications and his ability to operate a motor vehicle in
such manner as not to jeopardize the safety of persons or property and as
to whether any facts exist which would bar the issuance of a license under
section five of this act, but such examination shall not include investiga-
tion of any facts other than those directly pertaining to the ability of the
applicant to operate a motor vehicle with safety, or other than those facts
declared to be prerequisite to the issuance of a license under this act.

(b) On and after the effective date of this section, as amended, no
person, except those expressly exempted in sections three and four of
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this act, shall drive any motor vehicle on any highway in this State until
such person shall have made application for an operator’s or chauffeur’s
license, as hereinbefore provided, and satisfactorily passed the examina-
tion required by subsection (a) of this section, and obtained either an
operator’s or chauffeur’s license, unless such person shall have heretofore
been issued an operator’s or chauffeur’s license under the provisions of
this act, to expire on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-two, or
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-five. Any operator’s license
hereafter issued in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be
issued to expire three years from the date of issuance thereof, and any
operator’s license so issued, or any operator’s license heretofore issued
to expire on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-two, or June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-five, may thereafter upon proper
application and in the discretion of the division, be renewed without
examination of the applicant. Every such license shall be issued to expire
three years from the date of issuance thereof. Any chauffeur’s license so
issued, or any chauffeur’s license heretofore issued to expire on June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-two, or June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred and forty-three, may thereafter upon proper application and in
the discretion of the division, be renewed without examination of the
applicant, and every such license shall be issued to expire one year from
the date of issuance thereof. For each operator’s license issued or renewed
as herein provided the fee shall be fifty cents (50c), and for each chaut-
feur’s license issued or renewed as herein provided the fee shall be two
dollars ($2.00). > “ee GR Be |

2. ‘An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.