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2017 SESSION


CHAPTER 821
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-373.1, relating to report of law-enforcement officer involved in an accident.
[S 1486]
Approved April 5, 2017

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-373.1 as follows:

§ 46.2-373.1. Report of law-enforcement officer involved in accident.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 46.2-208, any law-enforcement officer, as defined in § 9.1-101, who is named as a driver in a motor vehicle accident on a report submitted to the Department pursuant to § 46.2-373 shall not have the accident displayed on his driving record if he was driving a motor vehicle provided by a law-enforcement agency in the course of his employment and was operating the motor vehicle in the performance of his official duties at the time of such accident. The driving record of such law-enforcement officer involved in an accident in the course of his employment shall not contain any information of an accident submitted pursuant to § 46.2-373.