2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-2000.1 - Vehicles excluded from operation of chapter

46.2-2000.1. Vehicles excluded from operation of chapter.

This chapter shall not be construed to include:

1. Motor vehicles employed solely in transporting school children andteachers;

2. Taxicabs, or other motor vehicles performing bona fide taxicab service,having a seating capacity of not more than six passengers, excluding thedriver, while operating in a county, city, or town which has or adopts anordinance regulating and controlling taxicabs and other vehicles performing abona fide taxicab service, and not operating on a regular route or betweenfixed termini;

3. Motor vehicles owned or operated by or on behalf of hotels while usedexclusively for the transportation of hotel patronage between hotels andlocal railroad or other common carrier stations;

4. Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States, the District ofColumbia, or any state, or any municipality or any other politicalsubdivision of this Commonwealth, including passenger-carrying motor vehicleswhile being operated under an exclusive contract with the United States;

5. Any motor vehicle designed with a seating capacity for and used totransport not more than fifteen passengers, including the driver, if thedriver and the passengers are engaged in a share-the-ride undertaking and ifthey share not more than the expenses of operation of the vehicle. Regularpayments toward a capital recovery fund not exceeding the cost of the vehicleor used to pay for leasing the vehicle are to be considered eligible expensesof operation;

6. Unless otherwise provided, motor vehicles while used exclusively in thetransportation of passengers within the corporate limits of incorporatedcities or towns, and motor vehicles used exclusively in the regulartransportation of passengers within the boundaries of such cities or townsand adjacent counties where such vehicles are being operated by such countyor pursuant to a contract with the board of supervisors of such county;

7. Motor vehicles while operated under the exclusive regulatory control of atransportation district commission acting pursuant to Chapter 45 ( 15.2-4500et seq.) of Title 15.2;

8. Motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers by nonprofit,nonstock corporations funded solely by federal, state or local subsidies, theuse of which motor vehicles are restricted as to regular and irregular routesto contracts with four or more counties and, at the commencement of theoperation, no certificated carrier provides the same or similar serviceswithin such counties.

(Code 1950, 56-274; 1950, p. 370; 1958, c. 285; 1966, c. 575; 1968, c. 183;1970, c. 33; 1973, c. 460; 1975, c. 122; 1976, cc. 378, 411; 1977, c. 514;1978, c. 152; 1979, cc. 608, 618; 1980, c. 230; 1982, c. 257; 1983, c. 112;1985, c. 88; 1986, c. 420; 1989, c. 625; 1995, cc. 744, 803; 2001, c. 596;2002, c. 337.)