CHAPTER 549

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-362, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the period of time during which proof of financial
responsibility must be given and maintained.

(S 317]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-362, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-362. (a) The Division shall not issue an operator’s or chauf-
feur’s license or temporary instruction permit to any person, resident or
nonresident, who has been convicted or has forfeited bail within one year
of the application for such license or permit:

(1) Upon the following charges or offenses committed in violation of
any Federal law or law of this State or law of any other state or political
subdivision thereof: (i) Voluntary or involuntary manslaughter resulting
from the operation of a motor vehicle; (ii) Perjury, the making of a false
affidavit to the Division under any law requiring the registration of motor
vehicles or regulating their operation on the highways or the making of
a false statement in any application for an operator’s or chauffeur’s permit;
(iii) Any crime punishable as a felony under the motor vehicle laws or
any felony in the commission of which a motor vehicle is used;

(2) Upon the following charges of offenses committed in violation
of any Federal law or law of this State or law of any other state or any
valid town, city or county ordinance of this State or of any other state:
(1) Driving while under the influence of intoxicants or drugs in viola-
tion of §§ 18.1-54 or 18.1-60 or driving after forfeiture of license for a con-
viction under §§ 18.1-54 or 18.1-60 or similar Federal or state laws or
ordinances of any town, city or county of this State or of any other state;
(ii) Reckless driving, for the second time, when the offenses upon which
the charges are based were committed within a period of twelve consecutive
months; (iii) Failure of a driver of a motor vehicle, involved in an acci-
dent resulting in death or injury to another person, to stop and disclose
his identity at the scene of the accident:
(8) Upon a charge of operating or permitting the operation, for the
second time, of a passenger automobile for the transportation of pas-
sengers for rent or for hire, without having first obtained a license for
such privilege as provided in § 46.1-149.

(b) The Division shall not issue an operator’s or chauffeur’s license
or temporary instruction permit to any person convicted of a crime men-
tioned in paragraphs (a) (1) (i); (2) (i), (ii) or (iii) of this section for
a further period of * three years after he shall become entitled to a license
or permit under this section, unless and until he shall prove to the Com-
missioner his ability to respond in damages as provided in Article 6
(§ 46.1-467 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of this title or any other law of this
State now in effect or subsequently enacted requiring proof of financial
responsibility.