Chap. 188.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 17, as heretofore amended,
of chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March
29, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Operators’ and
Chauffeurs’ License Act, said section relating to the mandatory revocation
of operators’ and chauffeurs’ license and the filing of evidence of financial
responsibility by persons whose license has been revoked by reason of con-
viction of certain crimes. [H B 320]

Approved March 18, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seventeen, as heretofore amended, of chapter three hundred and
eighty-five of the acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, and known, designated and cited as the Virignia Operators’
and Chauffeurs’ License Act, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 17. Mandatory suspension or revocation of license by the
division (a) The division shall forthwith revoke the license of any
person upon receiving a record of the conviction of such person of any
of the following crimes, committed in violation of either a State law
or of a valid town, city or county ordinance, paralleling and substan-
tially conforming to a like state law and to all changes and amendments
of such state law.

First. Voluntary or involuntary manslaughter resulting from the
operation of a motor vehicle.

Second. Driving a vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence
of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug.

Third. Perjury or the making of a false affidavit to the division
under this act or any other law of this State requiring the registration
of motor vehicles or regulating their operation on highways.

Fourth. Any crime punishable as a felony under the motor ve-
hicle laws of this State or any other felony in the commission of whick
a motor vehicle is used.

Fifth. Conviction or forfeiture of bail upon two charges of reck.
less driving all within the preceding twelve months.

Sixth. A conviction of a driver of a motor vehicle, involved in ar
accident resulting in the death or injury of another person, upon a
charge of failing to stop and disclose his identity at the scene of the
accident.

(b) The division upon receiving a record of the conviction of
any person upon a charge of operating a motor vehicle while the license
of such person is suspended or revoked, shall immediately extend the
period of such first suspension or revocation for an additional like
period.

(c) No person, whether a resident of this State or not, whose
operator’s or chauffeur’s license, or whose right to operate a motor
vehicle in this State, is hereafter revoked by reason of conviction by any
court of competent jurisdiction in this or any other State, of any offense
mentioned in the first, second, fifth or sixth paragraphs of this section,
committed in violation of any State law or in violation of any valid
town, city or county ordinance paralleling and substantially conforming
to a like State law and to all changes and amendments of such State
law, shall have his license restored, nor shall he operate any motor
vehicle upon the highways of this State until such person has first
proven to the satisfaction of the Director of the Division of Motor
Vehicles, his ability to respond in damages which may thereafter be
adjudged against him on account of accidents resulting from his owner-
ship or operation of a motor vehicle to the amount of five thousand dol-
lars for personal injury to or death of one person as the result of one
accident, and to the amount of ten thousand dollars for personal injury
to or the death of more than one person as the result of one accident,
and to the amount of one thousand dollars for damages to property
as the result of one accident; and the filing by him with the said direc-
tor of either an adequate liability insurance policy or a bond with surety
to be approved by the director, shall be sufficient proof of his ability to
so respond in damages. In the event the said insurance policy or bond
should at any time within five years from and after the date of filing
same become ineffective the said director shall forthwith revoke such
license. , , ,

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.