CHAPTER 385

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-210 of the Code of 1950, re-
lating to the penalty for reckless driving. 17
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Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-210 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenact-
ed as follows:

§ 46-210. Penalty for reckless driving.—Every person con-
victed of reckless driving under § 46-208 or § 46-209 shall, for
either a first or second violation, be guilty of a misdemeanor if
he caused seriously bodily injury to any other person as a result
of such reckless driving; every other person convicted of reck-
less driving under either of such sections shall, for the first vio-
lation, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not
more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
for each second or subsequent conviction for the offense of reck-
less driving, under either of such sections, committed within
twelve months from the date of a prior conviction for reckless
driving, every such person shall be punished by a fine of not
less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in jail for not less than ten days nor more than
six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

* Except in those cases for which revocation of license 1s
provided under paragraph (5) of § 46-416 of the Code, any trial
justice or court may, in addition to the foregoing punishment,
suspend any license issued to such convicted person under chap-
ter 5 of this title for a period of not less than ten days nor more
than six months and such trial justice or court shall require such
convicted person to surrender his license so suspended. If such
person so convicted has not obtained the license required by such
chapter such trial justice or court may direct in the judgment
of conviction that such person shall not, for such period of not
less than ten days nor more than six months as may be pre-
scribed in the judgment, drive or operate any motor vehicle in
this State.

Such trial justice or court or the clerk of such trial justice
or court shall transmit such license to the Commissioner along
with the report of such conviction required to be sent to the

ivision. ,