CHAPTER 205

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-7 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to signing and possession of registration cards; exhibiting such cards;
failure to carry licenses and registration cards; and providing a
penalty.

[H 453]

Approved March 6, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
mn That § 46.1-7 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 46.1-7. (a) Every owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer
upon receiving a registration card issued by the Division shall write his
usual signature with pen and ink in the space or spaces provided for that
purpose and such registration card shall not be valid unless so signed ;
provided, however, the Commissioner may, if in his opinion it 1s equitable,
accept a stamped or facsimile signature of an owner if such owner files
with the Commissioner an acknowledgement that such stamped or facsimile
signature can be relied upon the same as though the owner had personally
signed any such registration card or application for license.

(b) The operator or chauffeur of a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-
trailer, while such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer is operated upon the
highways of this State, shall have in his possession the registration card
issued by the Division or the registration card issued by the state or country
in which the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer is registered and his
operator’s or chauffeur’s license or temporary instruction or driver’s

(c) The owner, operator or chauffeur of any motor vehicle, trailer,
or semitrailer shall stop upon the signal of any peace or police officer who
shall be in uniform or who shall show his badge or other sign of authority
and shall upon request exhibit his registration card, operator’s or chauf-
feur’s license or temporary instruction or driver’s permit and shall write
his name in the presence of such peace or police officer if so required for
the purpose of establishing his identity.

(d) Every person licensed by the Division as an operator and every
person licensed by the Division as a chauffeur or issued a temporary in-
struction or driver’s permit who fails to carry his license or permit and
the registration card for the vehicle which he operates shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction punished by a fine of not less than one
dollar nor more than ten dollars provided, however, if any person, when
summoned to appear before a court for failure to display his license, permit,
or the registration card, upon such demand being made of him, shall present
to the officer making such demand before the return date of the summons
@ proper license or permit duly issued to him prior to the time of such
demand or a proper registration card, as the case may be, or shall appear
pursuant to such summons and produce before the court a proper license or
permit duly issued to him prior to the time of such demand or a proper
registration card, as the case may be, he shall be deemed to have complied
with the provisions of this section.