CHAPTER 47

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-16.1 of the Code of Virginia, relat-
ng to establishment of traffic schools and attendance of traffic law
violators.

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Approved February 21, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-16.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 46.1-16.1. Traffic schools; requiring attendance by persons con-
victed of certain violations——(a) The governing body of any county or
city may by ordinance provide for the establishment within such county
or city of a traffic school, at which there shall be given instruction con-
cerning laws and ordinances for the regulation of vehicular traffic, safe
operation of vehicles, and such other subjects as may be prescribed. Such
ordinance shall provide for the supervision and control of such school,
the days and hours when it shall be conducted, and the personnel who are
to be instructors therefor. In the discretion of the governing body, the
ordinance establishing a traffic school may vest the direction and con-
duct of such school in the county or city court or courts charged with
the duty of hearing traffic cases.

The governing body of any county or city may, alternatively, by
ordinance provide for the designation of an existing traffic school or
course if such 1s operated as part of a county or city adult education
program as a traffic school for the purposes of this section.

(b) Any court of such county or city having jurisdiction of offenses
covered by Articles 1 through 6 (§§ 46.1-168 to 46.1-258) of Chap. 4
of this title or ordinances of the county or city regulating traffic is
authorized to require any person found guilty of a violation of any such
statute or ordinance to attend the traffic school established as provided
in subsection (a) of this section for such period as shall be specified in
the order requiring such attendance. Such requirement for attendance
may be in lieu of or in addition to the penalties prescribed by § 46.1-16
or any such ordinance. Failure to comply with the order of the court
shall be punishable as contempt of such court. No person not a resident
of any such county or city shall be required to attend any school created
hereunder; unless, if a non-resident violator be a resident of another
county or city in which a traffic school has been established or designated
as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the court may require his
attendance at such traffic school for such period as shall be specified in
the order requiring such attendance.