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2016 SESSION
16102320DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.2-1077 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-1077. Motor vehicles not to be equipped with television within view of driver; viewing motion pictures or similar displays while driving.
A. No motor vehicle registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia shall be equipped
with, nor shall there be used therein, a television receiver when the moving
images are visible to the driver while the vehicle is in motion. The operator
of a motor vehicle that is not required to be registered in
Virginia the Commonwealth
shall not operate a television receiver that violates the provisions of this
section while driving in the Commonwealth.
The prohibitions contained in this subsection shall not, however, include:
1. Electronic displays used in conjunction with vehicle navigation and mapping systems, or as part of a digital dispatch system;
2. Closed circuit video monitors designed to operate only in conjunction with dedicated video cameras and used in rear-view systems on trucks, motor homes, and other motor vehicles;
3. Television receivers or monitors used in government-owned
vehicles by law-enforcement officers and employees of the
Virginia Department of Transportation in the course of their
official duties;
4. Visual displays used to enhance or supplement the driver's view forward, behind, or to the sides of a motor vehicle for the purpose of maneuvering the vehicle;
5. A vehicle information display;
6. A visual display used to enhance or supplement a driver's view of vehicle occupants;
7. Television-type receiving equipment used exclusively for safety or traffic engineering information; or
8. A television receiver, video monitor, television or video
screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a
television broadcast or signal
moving image, if that equipment is
factory-installed and has an interlock device that, when
the motor vehicle operator
is driven performing
the driving task,
disables the equipment for all uses except as a visual display described in
subdivisions 1 through 7.
B. Except for displays explicitly authorized in subsection A, no driver of any motor vehicle shall view any motion picture or similar video display while driving.