2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-310 - Localities may not require license except for taxicabs; prosecutions for operation of vehicle witho...

46.2-310. Localities may not require license except for taxicabs;prosecutions for operation of vehicle without license or while suspended.

Counties, cities, and towns shall not require any local permit to drive,except as provided in this section. Counties, cities, and towns may adoptregulations for the licensing of drivers of taxicabs and similar for-hirepassenger vehicles and for the control of the operation of such for-hirevehicles. This section shall not preclude any county, city, or town fromprosecuting, under a warrant issued by such county, city, or town, a personcharged with violation of a local ordinance prohibiting operation of a motorvehicle without a driver's license or while his driver's license or privilegeto drive is suspended or revoked.

(Code 1950, 46-349; 1958, c. 541, 46.1-353; 1964, c. 455; 1984, c. 780;1989, c. 727.)