CHAPTER 455

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-853 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to local requirements for licenses to operate motor vehicles.
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Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-353 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 46.1-358. Counties, cities and towns of this State are hereby
expressly prohibited from requiring any other operator’s license or local
permit to drive, except as herein provided, provided that cities, towns and
counties which have now in force or hereafter adopt regulations for the
licensing of drivers of taxicabs and other similar for hire passenger
vehicles and for the control of the operation of such for hire vehicles may
impose and enforce regulations in addition to the provisions of this
chapter; provided, further, that this section shall not preclude any county,
city or town from prosecuting, under a warrant issued by such county,
city or town, a person charged with violation of an ordinance of such
county, city or town prohibiting operation of a motor vehicle without an
operator’s license or while his operator’s license is suspended or revoked.
2. An emergency exists and this Act is in force from its passage.