Chap. 281.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1 of Chapter 315 of the Acts
of the Assembly of 1942, approved March 30, 1942, relating to exemption of
certain vehicles from certain requirements of law with respect to registerin:
and licensing such vehicles under certain conditions. {H 358]

Approved March 16, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one of chapter three hundred fifteen of the Acts
of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved March thirty,
nineteen hundred forty-two, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 1. No person shall be required to obtain the annual
Tegistration certificate and license plates, or to pay the fee pre-
scribed therefor, pursuant to the provisions of the Motor Vehicle
Code of Virginia, for any truck upon which is securely attached
a machine for spraying fruit trees and plants of the owner or
lessee of said truck or for any motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer,
as those terms are defined in the said Code, which is used exclus-
ively for agricultural or horticultural purposes on lands owned or
leased by the owner thereof and which is not operated on or over
any public highway of this State for any purpose other than for
the purpose of operating it across a highway or along a highway
from one point of the said owner’s land to another part thereof, or
for the purpose of taking it or other fixtures thereto attached, to
and from a repair shop for repairs. The foregoing exemption from
registration and license requirements shall also apply to any
farm trailer owned by the owner or lessee of the farm on which
such trailer is used, when such trailer is used by the owner thereof
for the purpose of moving farm produce and livestock from such
farm along a public highway for a distance not to exceed five
miles to a storage house or packing plant, when such use is a
seasonal operation.

The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to
farm machinery and tractors; provided further that such machinery
and tractors may use the highways in going from one tract of land
to another tract of land regardless of whether such land be owned
by the same or different persons.

Any vehicle exempted hereunder from the requirements of
annual registration certificate and license plates and fees therefor
shall not be permitted to use the highways as above provided
between sunset and sunrise unless said vehicle is equipped with
headlights, tail-lights and other lights required by law.