CHAPTER 384

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 46-264 and 46-317 of the Code
of 1950, relating, respectively, to requirements for lighting
equipment and for inspection, so as to exempt certain
vehicles therefrom.

[ H 528 ]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 46-264 and 46-317 of the Code of 1950 be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46-264. Equipment required.—Every vehicle operated
or moved upon a highway within this State shall at all times be
equipped with such lamps as are in this article respectively re-
quired for different classes of vehicles, which lamps shall at all
times be capable of being lighted, except as herein otherwise
provided; but this section shall not apply to any vehicle for
transporting well-drilling machinery licensed under § 46-164 of
the Code, when operated only between the hours of sunrise and
sunset.
§ 46-317. Requirement of inspection.—The Superintend-
ent may at any time compel, by proclamation of the Governor
or otherwise, the owner or operator of any motor vehicle,
trailer or semitrailer operated upon a highway within this
Commonwealth to submit such vehicle to an inspection of its
mechanism and equipment by an official inspection station, de-
signated for that purpose, and any such owner or operator who
fails to submit a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer operated
upon the highways of this State to such inspection: or who fails
or refuses to correct or have corrected in accordance with the
requirements of this title any mechanical defects found by such
inspection to exist shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished in accordance with the provisions of § 46-18 and each
operation of such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer over any
highway in this State after failure to comply with this law shall
constitute a separate offense; but the provisions of this section
shall not apply to any vehicle for transporting well-drilling ma-
chinery licensed under § 46-164 of the Code.