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2005 SESSION


CHAPTER 582
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-1158.1, relating to extension of validity of vehicle safety inspection approval stickers for armed services personnel serving outside the Commonwealth.
[H 2186]
Approved March 22, 2005
 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-1158.1 as follows:

§ 46.2-1158.1. Extension of validity of vehicle safety inspection approval stickers issued for vehicles whose registered owners are persons in the armed services of the United States.

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, any vehicle safety inspection approval sticker issued for any vehicle whose registered owner is a person in the armed services of the United States shall be held not to have expired during the period of the owner's official absence from the Commonwealth in the armed services of the United States.  Should the armed services member be domiciled in another state of the United States, nothing in this section shall be construed to absolve such person from obtaining a current inspection sticker from his state of domicile, if required by such state.  In cases where the vehicle does not have a current, valid vehicle safety inspection approval sticker and returns to or becomes operational in the Commonwealth, for any reason, the operator will have 24 hours, Sundays and holidays excepted, to have the vehicle inspected.  Furthermore, no penalty shall be imposed on any such owner or operator for operation of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer after the expiration of a period fixed for the inspection thereof, over the most direct route between the place where such vehicle is kept or garaged and an official inspection station for the purpose of having it inspected pursuant to an appointment with such station.

For the purposes of this section, "service in the armed services of the United States" includes active duty service with the regular armed forces of the United States or the National Guard or other reserve component.