CHAPTER 146

An Act to amend and reenact §8§ 46.1-284, 46.1-813 as amended, and
46.1-3814 of the Code of Virginia, relating to approval of certain
equipment and devices used in motor vehicles. rH 72]

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Approved February 28, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 46.1-284, 46.1-313 as amended, and 46.1-314 of the Code of
Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.1-284. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be equipped with
or for any person to use upon any vehicle any siren or exhaust, compres-
sion or spark plug whistle or horn except as may be authorized in this
title. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be equipped with or for any
person to use any * warning device while upon a highway or any way open
to public travel that is not of a type that has been approved by the Super-
intendent or for any person at any time to use a horn otherwise than as
a reasonable warning or to make any unnecessary or unreasonably loud
or harsh sound by means of a horn or other warning device, except that
the vehicles of common carriers or extraordinarily large and heavy vehicles
may be equipped with such type of warning device as the Superintendent
may require or permit.

§ 46.1-3138. The Superintendent, when having reason to believe that
an approved lighting device, * warning device, signal device, * safety glass
or other equipment for which a certificate of approval has been issued and
which is being sold commercially does not under ordinary conditions of
use comply with the requirements of this title, may, after notice to the
manufacturer thereof, suspend or revoke the certificate of approval issued
therefor, until or unless such device is resubmitted to and retested by an
authorized testing agency and is found to meet the requirements of this
title. In the event no certificate of approval for such device or equipment
has been issued by the Superintendent by reason of a waiver as provided
in § 46.1-311 of the Code, the notice to the manufacturer as herein pro-
vided shall have the effect of making further sales of such device or
equipment unlawful in this State until such device or equipment has been
submitted to the Superintendent and a certificate of approval has been
issued in accordance with the procedure established pursuant to § 46.1-311
of the Code. The Superintendent may at the time of retest purchase in the
open market and submit to the testing agency one or more sets of such
approved device and if such device upon such retest fails to meet the
requirements of this title the Superintendent may permanently revoke the
certificate of approval of such device. In the discretion of the Superin-
tendent, an approval for the sale and use of any such device may be
amended to permit the continued use of such devices already sold but to
prohibit further sales of the device.

§ 46.1-314. (a) Any person who shall apply to the Superintendent
for a certificate of approval required by this chapter shall pay the fees
herein prescribed.

(1) The fee for approval and recordation of head lamps, warning
devices, safety glass, signal devices and other devices required by this
title to be approved by the Superintendent and not provided for elsewhere
in this section shall be a sum not more than one hundred and fifty dollars.

(2) The fee for approval and recordation of rear lamps, spotlamps
or any other lighting devices shall be a sum not more than seventy-five

ollars.

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(3) The fee for approval and recordation of brake testing and light
testing machines shall be a sum not more than one hundred dollars for
each type approved.

(4) The fee for approval and recordation of safety belts and safety
harnesses shall be a sum not more than fifty dollars.

(b) Fees collected under this section shall be used by the Superin-
tendent in examining and testing devices to be approved and for main-
taining and publishing necessary records; and shall be in addition to the
regular appropriation made by law.