CHAPTER 568

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-45, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to exemptions from requirements for registration cer-
tificates and license plates. CH 154]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-45, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46-45. No person shall be required to obtain the annual regis-
tration certificate and license plates or to pay the fee prescribed therefor,
pursuant to the provisions of this title, for any truck upon which is
securely attached a machine for spraying fruit trees and plants of the
owner or lessee of the truck or for any motor vehicle, trailer or semi-
trailer, which is used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes
on lands owned or leased by the owner thereof and which is not operated
on or over any public highway of this State for any other purpose other
than for the purpose of operating it across a highway or along a highway
from one point of the owner’s land to another part thereof, irrespective of
whether or not the tracts adjoin, provided that the distance between the
points shall not exceed ten miles, or for the purpose of taking it or other
fixtures thereto attached, to and from a repair shop for repairs. The fore-
going exemption from registration and license requirements shall also
apply to any vehicle hereinbefore described or to any farm trailer owned
by the owner or lessee of the farm on which such trailer is used, when
such trailer is used by the owner thereof for the purpose of moving farm
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produce and livestock from such farm along a public highway for a
distance not to exceed ten miles to a storage house or packing plant, when
such use is a seasonal operation.

The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to farm
machinery and tractors; provided further that such machinery and
tractors may use the highways in going from one tract of land to another
tract of land regardless of whether such land be owned by the same or
different person.

Any vehicle exempted hereunder from the requirements of annual
registration certificate and license plates and fees therefor shall not be
permitted to use the highways as above provided between sunset and
sunrise unless said vehicle is equipped with headlights, tail lights and other
lights required by law.

The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to uny
farm or other tractor, trailer, log cart or similar vehicles owned by a
saw mill operator when operated on a highway while being moved from
one site to another, or being taken to or from a repair shop for repairs,
or while crossing a highway from one contiguous tract of land to another.