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1997 SESSION
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.