CHAPTER 14

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-876, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to expiration and renewal of operators’ and chauffeurs’
licenses so as to increase the fee and require certain notices. CH. 26]

Approved February 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46-376, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

_, § 46-376. Any operator’s license issued in accordance with the pro-
visions of this chapter shall be issued to expire three years from the date
of issuance thereof and may thereafter upon proper application, and in
the discretion of the Division, be renewed without examination of the
applicant. All operators’ licenses issued prior to July first, nineteen hun-
dred forty-six, shall expire on the date shown thereon. Upon renewal
thereof, after July first, nineteen hundred forty-six, such licenses shall be
valid for three years from the birthday month of the applicant nearest
to the month in which application for renewal is made. All original opera-
tors’ licenses issued after July first, nineteen hundred forty-six, shall be
valid for three years from the birthday month of the applicant nearest
to the month in which the license is issued. Thereafter, all such licenses
shall be renewed in the birthday month of the licensee and shall be valid
for three years. Any chauffeur’s license so issued, or any chauffeur’s
license issued prior to June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and forty-six,
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. On and after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-six, for each opera-
tor’s license issued or renewed as herein provided the fee shall be * one
dollar and for each chauffeur’s license issued or renewed as herein pro-
vided the fee shall be two dollars. * Within ninety days prior to the date
shown on the operator's license as the date of expiration, commencing
with those operators’ licenses shown as expiring in the fourth month
following the month in which this section as hereby amended becomes
effective, the Division shall mail notice to the holder thereof, at the
address shown on the records of the Division in its operator's license file,
that such license will expire on a date related therein. Nonreceipt o
such notice shall not serve to extend the period of validity of suc
operator's license beyond the expiration date shown thereon. Twenty-
five percent of the fees thus received by the Commissioner shall be used
to defray the expenses of the Division incurred by reason of the mailing
of such notices and shall be in addition to the regular appropriation made
by the General Assembly.