CHAPTER 498

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46-45, as amended, and 46-848 of the Code
of Virginia, relating, respectively, to exemption of certain motor
vehicles from licensing and exemption of certain persons from obtain-
ing operators’ or chauffeurs’ licenses. :

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Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 46-45, as amended, and 46-348 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46-45. No person shall be required to obtain the annual registra-
tion certificate and license plates or to pay the fee prescribed therefor,
pursuant to the provision of this title, for any truck upon which is securely
attached a machine for spraying fruit trees and plants of the owner or
lessee of the truck or for any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, which
is used exclusively 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 other purpose other than for
the purpose of operating it across a highway or along a highway from
one point of the owner’s land to another part thereof, irrespective of
whether or not the tracts adjoin, provided that the distance between the
points shall not exceed ten miles, or for the purpose of taking it or other
fixtures thereto attached, to and from a repair shop for repairs. The fore-
going exemption from registration and license requirements shall also
apply to any vehicle hereinbefore described or 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 dis-
tance not to exceed ten 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 sun-
rise unless said vehicle is equipped with headlights, tail lights and other
lights required by law.

§ 16-348. No person shall be required to obtain an operator’s or
chauffeur’s license for the purpose of driving or operating a road roller,
road machinery or any farm tractor or implement of husbandry or vehicle
defined in § 46-45, temporarily drawn, moved or propelled on the highways.