Chap. 392.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 385 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, relating to issuing
permits and licenses to minors, to drive motor vehicles. [H B 293]

Approved April 3, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of chapter three hundred and eighty-five of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, approved March
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be amended and re-
enacted, as follows:
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Section 7. Instruction permits—(a) The division upon receiving
from any person over the age of fifteen years an application for a tem-
oorary instruction permit may in its discretion issue such a permit en-
‘itling the applicant, while having such permit in his immediate posses-
sion, to drive a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of sixty
days when accompanied by a licensed operator or chauffeur who is
actually occupying a seat beside the driver.

(b) An operator’s license may be issued to a minor over the age
of fifteen years, upon proper application therefor and upon satisfactory
evidence that such minor is mentally, physically and otherwise qualified
to drive a motor vehicle with safety; provided further, that no such
minor shall drive a motor vehicle on the streets and alleys of any city
in this State if prohibited from so doing by a proper city ordinance.

2. This act shall become effective on January first, nineteen hun-
dred and forty-three. .