CHAPTER 251

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-880, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to expiration and renewal of operators’ and chauf-
feurs’ licenses; notice of expiration of same; the fees for the issuance
and renewal of such licenses; the disposition and use of such fees.

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Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-380, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-380. Any operator’s license issued in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter shall be issued to expire three years from the
jate of issuance thereof and may thereafter upon proper application,
and in the discretion of the Division, be renewed without examination of
she applicant. All operators’ licenses issued prior to July first, nineteen
1undred forty-six, shall expire on the date shown thereon. Upon re-
1ewal thereof, after July first, nineteen hundred forty-six, such licenses
hall be valid for three years from the birthday month of the applicant
1earest to the month in which application for renewal is made. All origi-
nal operators’ licenses issued after July first, nineteen hundred forty-six,
shall be valid for three years from the birthday month of the applicant
nearest to the month in which the license is issued. Thereafter, all such
licenses shall be renewed in the birthday month of the licensee and shall
be valid for three years. Any chauffeur’s license so issued, or any chauf-
feur’s license issued prior to June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
forty-six, may thereafter upon proper application and in the discretion
of the Division be renewed without examination of the applicant and
every such license shall be issued to expire one year from the date of
issuance thereof. For each operator’s license issued or renewed as herein
provided the fee shall be * siz dollars and for each chauffeur’s license
issued or renewed as herein provided the fee shall be three dollars.
Within ninety days prior to the date shown on the operator’s license
as the date of expiration, commencing with those operators’ licenses
shown as expiring in the fourth month following the month in which this
section as hereby amended becomes effective, the Division shall mail notice
to the holder thereof, at the address shown on the records of the Division
in its operators’ license file, that such license will expire on a date related
therein. Nonreceipt of such notice shall not serve to extend the period of
validity of such operator’s license beyond the expiration date shown
thereon. Twenty-five cents of each operator license fee and fifty cents of
each chauffeur license fee thus received by the Commissioner shall be used
to defray the expenses of the Division incurred by reason of the mailing
of such notices and shall be in addition to the regular appropriation made
by the General Assembly, and one dollar of such fees shall be paid into
the Driver Education Fund of the State treasury, and expended as pro-
vided for in § 22-235.1. Unexpended funds from the Driver Education
Fund shall be retained in such Fund and be available for expenditure in
ensuing years as provided herein.