CHAPTER 568

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-167.8, us amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to penalties for operating uninsured motor vehicles
oe pen payment of fee; making false certificate or presenting false
evidence.

[S 415]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-167.8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows: |

8 46.1-167.3. * Any person owning an uninsured motor vehicle (1)
licensed in this State, or (2) subject to registration and license in this
State, or (3) displaying temporary license plates provided for in § 46.1-121
who operates or permits the operation * of such motor vehicle without first
having paid to the Commissioner with respect to the motor vehicle a fee of
fifty dollars, to be disposed of as provided by § 46.1-167.6, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as set forth in § 46.1-16.

The Commissioner, or his duly authorized agent, having good reason
to believe that a motor vehicle is operated or has been operated on any
specified date, may require the owner of such motor vehicle to submit the
certificate of insurance provided for by § 46.1-167.1. The refusal or
neglect of the owner, who has not prior to the date of operation paid the fee
of fifty dollars required by § 46.1-167.1 as to such motor vehicle to fur-
nish such certificate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle
was an uninsured motor vehicle at the time of such operation.

Any person who presents or causes to be presented to the Commis-
sioner a false certificate that a motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle
or false evidence that a motor vehicle sought to be registered is an insured

motor vehicle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as set forth
in § 46.1-16.
Provided that the foregoing portions of this section shall not be
applicable if it is established that such owner or person had good cause to
believe and did believe that such motor vehicle was an insured motor
vehicle, in which event the provisions of § 46.1-59 shall be applicable.

Abstracts of records of conviction, as defined in this title, of any
violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be forwarded to the
Commissioner as prescribed by § 46.1-413.

The Commissioner shall suspend the operator’s and/or chauffeur’s
license and all registration certificates and license plates of any person
upon receiving a record of his conviction of a violation of any provisions of
this section, and he shall not thereafter reissue the operator’s and/or
chauffeur’s license and the registration certificates and license plates issued
in the name of such person until such person shall pay the fifty dollar
fee applicable to the registration of an uninsured motor vehicle and shall
have furnished proof of financial responsibility for the future as pre-
scribed by Article 6 (§ 46.1-467 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of this title; provided,
however, that when * three years have elapsed from the date of the suspen-
sion herein required, the Commissioner may relieve such person of the
requirement of furnishing proof of financial responsibility for the future;
provided further, that when such suspension results from a conviction for
presenting or causing to be presented to the Commissioner a false certifi-
cate as to whether a motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle or false
evidence that any motor vehicle sought to be registered is insured, then
the Commissioner shall not thereafter reissue the operator’s and/or chauf-
feur’s license and the registration certificates and license plates issued in
the name of such person so convicted for a period of one hundred eighty
days from the date of such order of suspension, and only then when all
other provisions of law have been complied with by such person.