CHAPTER 168

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-195 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain records kept by certain courts and the Division of Motor
Vehicles.

[H 167]

Approved March 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

la That § 46-195 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 46-195. Every trial justice or clerk of a court of record in this
State shall keep a full record of every case in which a person is charged
with violation of any provision of this chapter and, in the event that such
person is convicted or that his bail is forfeited, an abstract of such record
shall be sent forthwith by any such trial justice or clerk of a court of
record to the Division. But this requirement shall not be deemed to make
the court of a trial justice a court of record.

Each clerk of any court of record of this State shall also, within ten
days after any final judgment of conviction of any violation of any of the
provisions of this chapter or of any ordinance of any city, town or county
paralleling the provisions of this chapter, send to the Division a certified
copy of such judgment of conviction. Certified copies of the judgment
shall also be forwarded to the Division upon conviction of any person of
manslaughter or other felony in the commission of which a vehicle was
used. The Division shall keep such records in its office and they shall be
open to the inspection of any person during reasonable business hours
provided that the Division, with the approval of the Governor, may destroy
the record of any conviction when five years have elapsed from the date
thereof, except those records that alone or in connection with other records
we require suspension or revocation under any applicable provisions of
this title.