Code of Virginia - Title 46.2 Motor Vehicles - Section 46.2-1000 Department to suspend registration of vehicles lacking certain equipment; officer to take possessio...

§ 46.2-1000. Department to suspend registration of vehicles lacking certain equipment; officer to take possessio...

The Department shall suspend the registration of any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which the Department or the Department of State Police determines is not equipped with proper (i) brakes, (ii) lights, (iii) horn or warning device, (iv) turn signals, (v) safety glass when required by law, (vi) mirror, (vii) muffler, (viii) windshield wiper, (ix) steering gear adequate to ensure 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 law-enforcement officer shall, when he observes any defect in a motor vehicle as described above, take possession of the registration card, license plates, and decals of any such vehicle and retain the same in his possession for a period of fifteen days unless the owner of the vehicle corrects the defects or obtains a new safety inspection sticker from an authorized safety inspection station. When the defect or defects are corrected as indicated above the registration card, license plates, and decals shall be returned to the owner.

(Code 1950, § 46-56; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-58; 1960, c. 119; 1964, c. 414; 1972, c. 609; 1989, c. 727.)

Sections:  46.2-1000  46.2-1001  46.2-1002  46.2-1003  46.2-1004  46.2-1005  46.2-1006  46.2-1007  46.2-1008  46.2-1009  46.2-1010  46.2-1011  46.2-1012  46.2-1013  46.2-1014  Next

Last modified: April 3, 2009