CHAPTER 214

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-45 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to what motor vehicles exempt from requirement of registration cer-
tificate, license plates, and fees therefor.

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Approved March 9, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.1-45 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 46.1-45. (a) No person shall be required to obtain the annual reg-
istration certificate and license plates or to pay the fee prescribed therefor,
pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, for any truck upon which is
securely attached a machine for spraying fruit trees and plants of the
owner or lessee of the truck or for any motor vehicle, trailer or semi-
trailer, 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 other 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.

(b) The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to
farm machinery and tractors; provided further that such machinery and
tractors 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.

(c) 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 exemption
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
een date of issue and shall be renewable by the procedure set forth
above.

(d) 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.

(e) The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to any
farm or other tractor, trailer, log cart or similar vehicles owned by a saw-
mill operator when operated on a highway while being moved from one
site to another, or being taken to or from a repair shop for repairs, or
while crossing a highway from one contiguous tract of land to another.

(f) The exemptions contained in this section shall also apply to any
motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, so as to permit its operation on the
highway between a sawmill or sawmill site and the farm of the owner of
such motor vehicle for a distance not to exceed ten miles for the purpose of
hauling sawdust, shavings, slab wood, and other wood wastes.