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HOUSE BILL NO. 2405 House Amendments in [ ] -- February 3, 1997 A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-674 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemption for seafood-hauling vehicles used by commercial watermen. ---------- Patrons-- Murphy and Moss ---------- Referred to Committee on Transportation ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-674 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-674. Vehicles used by commercial fishermen.

No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, license plates and decals, or pay a registration fee for any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used by commercial fishermen, their agents, or employees for the purpose of:

1. Transporting boats or other equipment used in commercial fishing no more than [ twenty thirty ] miles between his place of residence or business and the waters within the territorial limits of the Commonwealth or the adjacent marginal seas; or

2. Any return trip to his place of residence or business; or

3. Transporting harvested seafood [ no more than thirty miles between the place where the seafood is first brought ashore and the transporter's place of business or the location of the seafood's first point of sale ] .