CHAPTER 292

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-45, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to exemptions from registration and licensing re-
quirements, so as to provide such exemptions for an additional class
of vehicles.

[H 565]

Approved March 9, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-45, as amended, 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 provisions of this title, for any truck upon which is secure-
ly 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 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 foregoing
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 trac-
tors 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.

The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to any
motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer validly registered in another State
and bearing valid license plates issued by such State, for the use of which
the owner or lessee of a farm has contracted as an incidental part of the
harvesting of a crop from such farm, while such vehicle is engaged in
moving farm produce from such farm as an incidental part of such har-
vesting operations, along a public highway for a distance not to exceed
ten miles to a storage house, packing plant, market, or transportation
terminal, when such use is a seasonal operation and when the owner of
such vehicle has secured from the Commissioner an exemption permit for
each such vehicle. The Commissioner, upon receipt of certification by the
Superintendent of State Police that such vehicle is entitled to the exemp-
tion set forth in this paragraph shall issue such exemption permit on a
form to be prescribed by him, which shall be carried at all times by
the operator of the vehicle, for which it is issued or in a conspicuous
place on such vehicle. Such exemption permit shall be valid for a period
of ninety days from date of issue and shall be renewable by the procedure
set forth above.

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
sunrise unless said vehicle is equipped with headlights, tail lights and
other lights required by law.