CHAPTER 181

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-167.1, 46.1-167.8 and 46.1-167.4,
as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating respectively to additional
fees for registration of uninsured motor vehicles, penalties for opera-

ion of such motor vehicles without paying such fee and suspension

of operator’s license and registration when such motor vehicles are
tnvolved in certain accidents. 37
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Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 46.1-167.1, 46.1-167.3 and 46.1-167.4, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-167.1. In addition to any other fees prescribed by law, every
person registering an uninsured motor vehicle, as hereinafter defined,
shall pay at the time of registering the same a fee of * fifty dollars.
Every person applying for registration for a motor vehicle and declaring
the same to be an insured motor vehicle shall, under the penalties set
forth in § 46.1-167.3, execute and furnish to the Commissioner his certifi-
cate that such motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle as herein defined,
or that the Commissioner has issued to the owner thereof, in accordance
with the provisions of § 46.1-395, a certificate of self-insurance applicable
to the vehicle sought to be registered. The Commissioner, or his duly
authorized agent, may require any registered owner of a motor vehicle
declared to be insured or any applicant for registration of a motor vehicle
declared to be an insured motor vehicle to submit a certificate of insarance
executed by an authorized agent or representative of an insurance com-
pany authorized to do business in this State. Such certificates of insur-
ance shall be in a form prescribed by the Commissioner.

§ 46.1-167.3. If during the period for which it is licensed a motor
vehicle is or becomes an uninsured motor velricle and the fee of * fifty
dollars required by § 46.1-167.1 has not been paid, the owner thereof who
operates or permits the operation thereof by another person shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as set forth in § 46.1-16.

Any person who presents or causes to be presented to the Commis-
sioner a false certificate that a motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle
or false evidence that a motor vehicle sought to be registered is an insured
8 ae vehicle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as set forth
in § 46.1-16.

Provided that the foregoing portions of this section shall not be
applicable if it is established that such owner or person had good cause
to believe and did believe that such motor vehicle was an insured motor
vehicle, in which event the provisions of § 46.1-59 shall be applicable.

Abstracts of records of conviction, as defined in this title, of any
violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be forwarded to
the Commissioner as prescribed by § 46.1-413.

The Commissioner shall suspend the operator’s and/or chauffeur’s
license and all registration certificates and license plates of any person
upon receiving a record of his conviction of a violation of any provisions
of this section, and he shall not thereafter reissue the operator’s and/or
chauffeur’s license and the registration certificates and license plates is-
sued in the name of such person until such person shall pay the * fifty
dollar fee applicable to the registration of an uninsured motor vehicle and
shall have furnished proof of financial responsibility for the future as
prescribed by Article 6 (§ 46.1-467 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of this title;
provided, however, that when five years have elapsed from the date of
the suspension herein required, the Commissioner may relieve such person
of the requirement of furnishing proof of financial responsibility for the
future; provided further, that when such suspension results from a con-
viction for presenting or causing to be presented to the Commissioner a
false certificate as to whether a motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle
or false evidence that any motor vehicle sought to be registered is in-
sured, then the Commissioner shall not thereafter reissue the operator’s
and/or chauffeur’s license and the registration certificates and license plates
issued in the name of such person so convicted for a period of one hundred
eighty days from the date of such order of suspension, and only then
when all other provisions of law have been complied with by such person.

§ 46.1-167.4. When it shall appear to the Commissioner from the
records of his office:

(1) That an uninsured motor vehicle as herein defined, subject
to registration in this State, is involved in a reportable accident in this
State resulting in death, injury or property damage with respect to which
motor vehicle the owner thereof has not paid the uninsured motor vehicle
fee of * fifty dollars as prescribed in § 46.1-167.1, or,

_ (2) That a resident operator of a motor vehicle not registered in
this State is involved in a reportable accident in this State resulting in
death, injury or property damage and there is not in effect as to such
operator a standard provisions automobile liability insurance policy with
limits as specified in § 46.1-504, as may be amended from time to time,
the Commissioner shall, in addition to enforcing the applicable provisions
of Article 4 (§ 46.1-442 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of this title, suspend such
owner’s or operator’s, operator’s and/or chauffeur’s license and all of his
license plates and registration certificates until such person has complied
with the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 6 of this title and has paid
to the Commissioner a fee of seventy-five dollars, to be disposed of as
provided by § 46.1-167.6, with respect to the motor vehicle involved in
the accident and furnishes proof of financial responsibility for the future
a hs anne prescribed in Article 6 (§ 46.1-467 et seq.) of Chap. 6
0 s title.

_ However, when five years have elapsed from the date of the suspen-
sion herein required, the Commissioner may relieve such person of the
requirement of furnishing proof of financial responsibility for the future.
The presentation by a person subject to the provisions of this section of a
certificate of insurance, executed by an agent or representative of an
Insurance company qualified to do business in this State, showing that
on the date and at the time of the accident the vehicle was an insurec

motor vehicle as herein defined, or, presentation by such person of evi-

dence that the additional fee applicable to the registration of an uninsured

motor vehicle had been paid to the Division prior to the date and time

“a the accident, shall be sufficient bar to the suspension provided for in
section.