CHAPTER 546

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-350, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, to provide for the inclusion in the penalty provisions of this
section the operation of a motor vehicle by a person who has been
directed not to drive by any court of this State.

(S 810]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-850, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-850. (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 46.1-852.1, no
person resident or nonresident whose operator’s or chauffeur’s license or
instruction permit or privilege to drive a motor vehicle has been suspended
or revoked or who has been directed not to drive by any court or by the
Commissioner or by operation of law pursuant to the provisions of this
title or of § 18.1-59 or who has been forbidden as prescribed by law by the
Commissioner, the State Corporation Commission, the State Highway
Commissioner, or the Superintendent of State Police, to operate a motor
vehicle in this State shall thereafter drive any motor vehicle or any self-
propelled machinery or equipment on any highway in this State unless
and until the period of such suspension or revocation shall have terminated.

(b) Any person violating this section shall for the first offense be
confined in jail not less than ten days nor more than six months; and may
in addition be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two
hundred dollars; and for the second or any subsequent offense be confined
in jail not less than two months nor more than one year; and may in
addition be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars. The court shall not suspend the entire jail sentence in
any case, but may in its discretion suspend a portion thereof, provided that
this provision, in the discretion of the court, shall not apply if the operation
of the motor vehicle was due to an emergency involving danger to the
health or life of any person, or to property; and provided further that the
court may in its discretion prescribe that the jail sentence shall be served
at such time or times as the court may direct after considering the cir-
cumstances of the person convicted of violating this section.