CHAPTER 414

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-58, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to suspension of registration of motor vehicles
under certain conditions.

[H 231]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-58, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted, as follows:

§ 46.1-58. The Division shall suspend the registration of any motor
vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which the Division or the Department of
State Police shall determine is not equipped with proper brakes, proper
lights, proper horn or warning device, or proper electrical or mechanical
signalling device or safety glass when required by law, or proper mirror,
proper muffler, proper windshield wiper, or proper steering gear adequate
to insure the safe movement of the vehicle as required by this title or
when such vehicle is equipped with a smoke screen device or cutout or
when such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer is otherwise unsafe to be
operated. Any police officer shall, when he observes any defect in a motor
vehicle as described above, take possession of the registration card and
license plates of any such vehicle and retain the same in his possession
for a period of 15 days unless the owner of said vehicle corrects the
defects or obtains a new inspection sticker from an authorized inspection
station. When the defect or defects are corrected as indicated above the
registration card and license plates shall be returned to said owner.