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2012 SESSION
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.2-336 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-336. Manner of issuing original driver's licenses to minors.
The Department shall forward all original driver's licenses
issued to applicants persons under the age of eighteen
18 years to the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court in the
city or county in which the licensee resides. The judge or a substitute judge
shall issue to each person to be licensed the license so forwarded, and shall,
at the time of issuance, conduct a formal, appropriate ceremony, in which he
shall illustrate to the licensee the responsibility attendant on the privilege
of driving a motor vehicle. If the licensee was is under the age
of eighteen 18 years at the time his application was made
ceremony is held, he shall be accompanied at the ceremony by a parent, his
guardian, spouse, or other person in loco parentis. However, the judge, for
good cause shown, may mail or otherwise deliver the driver's license to any
person who is a student at any educational institution outside of the
Commonwealth of Virginia at the time such license is received by the judge as
prescribed in this section.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the issuance of Virginia driver's licenses to persons who hold valid driver's licenses issued by other states.