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2012 SESSION
12100582DBe 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.