CHAPTER 407

An Act to require certain fees for the registration of uninsured motor
vehicles; to prescribe penalties for giving certain false information to
the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles; to define certain
terms; to require notification of cancellation or termination of certain
insurance policies; to provide for the revocation of certificates of
registration and license plates under certain conditions; to provide
for the disposition of fees collected from the registration of uninsured
motor vehicles; and to make an appropriation. [H 423]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. (a) In addition to any other fees prescribed by law, every
person registering an uninsured motor vehicle, as hereinafter defined, in
this State on and after October one, nineteen hundred fifty-eight and for
the registration year commencing April one, nineteen hundred fifty-nine,
and each registration year thereafter, shall pay at the time of registering
the same a fee of fifteen dollars. The Commissioner is authorized to require
that any person applying for registration of a motor vehicle or motor
vehicles certify under the penalties set forth in paragraph (b) of this sec-
tion whether or not each such motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle as
herein defined; or the Commissioner or his duly authorized agent may, in
his discretion, require that such person produce as evidence of financial
responsibility a certificate, in form prescribed by the Commissioner, of
insurance or self-insurance complying with the requirements of § 46-455,
or such person shall have given bond or delivered the cash or securities as
provided in §§ 46-464 and 46-474 of the Code of Virginia, respectively,
or pay the fee herein prescribed.

(b) Any person knowingly making a false certificate as to whether a
motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle or presenting to the Commis-
sioner, or to his duly authorized agent, false evidence that any motor
vehicle sought to be registered is insured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars and be confined in jail for not less than ten days
nor more than six months, either or both. The Commissioner shall deny, for
& period of one year, registration of any motor vehicle for which a false
certificate or false evidence is presented that the vehicle is insured, and
shall revoke, and not thereafter reissue for a period of one year, the
operator’s or chauffeur’s license of any person making such false certifi-
cate or offering such false evidence.

(c) As used in this section, the term “insured motor vehicle’ means
a motor vehicle as to which there is bodily injury liability insurance and
property damage liability insurance, both in the amounts specified in
§ 46-455, as amended from time to time, issued by an insurance carrier
authorized to do business in this State, or as to which a bond has been
given or cash or securities delivered in lieu of such insurance; or as to
which the owner has qualified as a self-insurer in accordance with the
provisions of § 46-393; and the term “uninsured motor vehicle” means a
motor vehicle as to which there is no such bodily injury liability insurance
and property damage liability insurance or no such bond has been given
or cash or securities delivered in lieu thereof, or the owner of which has
not so qualified as a self-insurer.

(d) Upon the termination of insurance by cancellation or failure to
renew, notice of such cancellation or other termination shall be filed by the
insurer with the Commissioner not later than five days following the
effective date of such cancellation or other termination.

(e) The Commissioner shall, upon receipt of the notice of cancella-
tion or termination provided for in the preceding paragraph, forthwith
revoke the certificate of registration and license plates of the motor vehicle
with respect to which such policy was theretofore in force, unless the
owner thereof either gives evidence that such vehicle is an insured vehicle
in the manner provided in paragraph (a) or pays the fee provided for in
paragraph (a). i. .

(f) All funds collected by the Commissioner under the provisions of
this section shall be paid into the State treasury and held in a special fund
to be known as the Uninsured Motorists Fund to be disbursed as provided
by law; provided, that the Commissioner may expend from such funds an
amount to be fixed by the Governor for the administration of this Act, for
which purpose such funds are hereby appropriated. ..

§ 2. Whenever in this Act reference is made to any of the conditions,
requirements, provisions or contents of any section of Title 46 of this Code,
all such references to such sections or former sections shall apply to the
corresponding new, recodified or renumbered section containing such con-
ditions, requirements, provisions or contents, or portions thereof, and to
any amendments or reenactments thereof.