Chap. 222.—To provide for certain credit to the owner and operator of a motor
vehicle truck, who paid the license fee thereon, and was unable to operate the
truck for the full license year by reason of his being inducted into the armed
forces of the United States. [S 135]

Approved March 15, 1944
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. The owner and operator of any motor vehicle truck who secured
and paid for a license thereon, but was prevented from operating the truck
for the full license year by reason of his being inducted into the armed
forces of the United States, and who, after his discharge from the service,
desires to and does resume his trucking operations, shall be entitled to
a pro rata credit on any new license purchased by him, in the proportion
that the part of the year for which he had paid the license and during
which part the truck was not in operation bears to the full license year.

The credit herein granted shall be obtained as follows: as to such
owners who entered the armed forces of the United States prior to July
one, nineteen hundred forty-four, their application for a credit shall be
accompanied by the certificate of registration issued for the license year
for which credit is sought, together with an affidavit as to the number of
months the license was unused and an affidavit that the owner has been
inducted into the armed forces; as to persons entering the armed forces
on and after July one, nineteen hundred forty-four, their applications for
a credit shall be made during the license year for which credit is sought.
and each such application shall be accompanied by the certificate of
registration and license plates issued the owner for the year for which
credit is sought and an affidavit that the owner has been or will be in-
ducted into the armed forces.

All such affidavits shall set forth that the vehicle cannot be operated
due to the owner’s service in the armed forces.

The Commissioner, when the owner is entitled to a refund, shall issue
him a credit to be applied on the purchase of a new license, in the pro-
portion that the part of the year for which the license fee was paid and
during which the truck will not be operated, bears to the full license year.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.