CHAPTER 16

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-210, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the penalty for reckless driving.
(H 20]

Approved December 16, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-210, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 46-210. Penalty for reckless driving.—Every person convicted of
reckless driving under § 46-208 or § 46-209 shall, for either a first or
second violation, be * punished as provided in § 19-265 if he caused
serious bodily injury to any other person as a result of such reckless
driving; every other person convicted of reckless driving under either of
such sections shall, for the first violation, be punished by a fine of not
less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment in jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and im-
prisonment; for each second or subsequent conviction for the offense of
reckless driving, under either of such sections, committed within twelve
months from the date of a prior conviction for reckless driving, every
such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor
more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not less
than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and im-
prisonment. . .

Except in those cases for which revocation of license is provided
under paragraph (5) of § 46-416 of the Code, any trial justice or court
may, in addition to the foregoing punishment, suspend any license issued
to such convicted person under chapter 5 of this title for a period of not
less than ten days nor more than six months and such trial justice or
court shall require such convicted person to surrender his license so sus-
pended. If such person so convicted has not obtained the license required
by such chapter such trial justice or court may direct in the judgment
of conviction that such person shall not, for such period of not less than
ten days nor more than six months as may be prescribed in the judg-
ment, drive or operate any motor vehicle in this State.

Such trial justice or court or the clerk of such trial justice or court
shall transmit such license to the Commissioner along with the report
of such conviction required to be sent to the Division.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.