CHAPTER 535
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-43 and 46.1-45 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to temporary registration for transportation of
certain equipment and to exemptions from registration for certain

vehicles.
[H 545]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 46.1-43 and 46.1-45 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-43. (a) The Commissioner may, if in his opinion it is equit-
able, grant a special temporary registration or permit for the operation of
* tractor-trucks, trucks and heavy duty trailers for the transportation of
heavy construction equipment, cranes, well-digging apparatus and other
heavy equipment upon the highways of this State from one point to
another within this State, or from this State to a point or points without
this State, or from without this State to a point or points within this
State. Such special registration or permit shall give the registration or
permit number, the date of issue, the date of expiration and the route to
be traveled and shall be displayed in a prominent place on the vehicle or
other apparatus.

(b) For such special temporary registration or permit the applicant
shall pay a fee based upon the sum of ten cents per mile for each and
every mile to be traveled by the * tractor-truck, truck, heavy duty trailer,
crane, well-digging apparatus or other heavy equipment.

§ 46.1-45. (a) No person shall be required to obtain the annual
registration certificate and license plates or to pay the fee prescribed
therefor, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, for any backhoe
operated on any highway a distance not in excess of ten miles from the
operating base of such backhoe, 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 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 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
distance 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
harvesting 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 ex-
emption 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.

(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, taillights 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
sawmill 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.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.