CHAPTER 263

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 38.1-881.1, to require that notices of cancellation of motor
vehicle insurance policies be given in certain ways. rH 614)

Approved March 18, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 38.1-381.1, as follows:

§ 38.1-381.1. No written notice of cancellation sent by mail by an
insurer to an insured in accordance with the provisions of a motor vehicle
insurance policy shall be effective unless it is sent by registered mail or
unless at the time of the mailing of said notice, the insurer has obtained
from the Post Office Department a written receipt showing the name and
address of the insured and the insurer has retained a duplicate copy of
said notice upon which is endorsed a certificate by the insurer that the
duplicate copy is a copy of the notice which was sent to the insured in
the mail for which said receipt was obtained.

_In the event that any such notice is mailed by other than registered
mail or without obtaining the receipt and retaining the duplicate copy of
Said notice endorsed as specified above, then the burden of proof that
said notice was actually delivered to the insured shall be upon the insurer.