2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-1070 - Brakes on trailers

46.2-1070. Brakes on trailers.

Every semitrailer, trailer, or separate vehicle attached by a drawbar, chain,or coupling to a towing vehicle other than a farm tractor or a vehicle notrequired to obtain a registration certificate and having an actual grossweight of 3,000 pounds or more, shall be equipped with brakes controlled oroperated by the driver of the towing vehicle, which shall conform to thespecifications set forth in 46.2-1067 and shall be of a type approved bythe Superintendent. Farm trailers used exclusively for hauling rawagricultural produce from farm to farm or farm to packing shed or processingplant within the normal growing area of the packing shed or processing plantand trailers or semitrailers drawn by a properly licensed motor vehicle butexempt from registration, shall be exempt from the requirements of thissection.

"Gross weight" for the purpose of this section includes weight of thevehicle and the load upon such semitrailer, trailer, or separate vehicle.

This section shall not apply to any vehicle being towed for repairs,repossession, in an emergency, or being moved by a tow truck when two wheelsof the towed vehicle are off the ground.

(Code 1950, 46-286; 1958, c. 541, 46.1-280; 1959, Ex. Sess., cc. 21, 90;1962, c. 313; 1966, c. 654; 1968, c. 164; 1970, c. 169; 1989, c. 727; 2006,cc. 874, 891.)