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No other statute or regulation in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be applicable to the extent of the conflict. This section shall also apply to trips into the Commonwealth by a vehicle owned and operated outside the Commonwealth to an establishment within the Commonwealth and to the return trip of that vehicle from the Commonwealth to another state, provided the operator of the vehicle carries on his person when so operating a bill of sale for the fifth wheel, body, or special equipment.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":216870,"text":"Notwithstanding the provisions of \u00a7 46.2-1550, dealer’s license plates or temporary transport plates may be used on tractor trucks or trucks for the purpose of delivering these vehicles to another establishment for the purpose of having a fifth wheel, body, or any special permanently mounted equipment installed on the vehicles, and for the purpose of returning the vehicle to the dealer whose plates are attached to the tractor truck or truck whether or not the title to the vehicle has been retained by the dealer, and no other license, permit, warrant, exemption card, or classification plate from any other agency of the Commonwealth shall be required under these circumstances. No other statute or regulation in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be applicable to the extent of the conflict. This section shall also apply to trips into the Commonwealth by a vehicle owned and operated outside the Commonwealth to an establishment within the Commonwealth and to the return trip of that vehicle from the Commonwealth to another state, provided the operator of the vehicle carries on his person when so operating a bill of sale for the fifth wheel, body, or special equipment.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":14806,"edition_id":1,"name":"Dealer's License Plates","identifier":"5","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13356,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:50:03","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:50:03","permalink":{"id":231379,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14806,"identifier":"5","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/5","url":"\/46.2\/IV\/15\/5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13356,"edition_id":1,"name":"Motor Vehicle Dealers","identifier":"15","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13355,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:42","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:42","permalink":{"id":231067,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13356,"identifier":"15","token":"46.2\/IV\/15","url":"\/46.2\/IV\/15\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13355,"edition_id":1,"name":"Dealers and Driver Training Schools","identifier":"IV","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12770,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:42","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:42","permalink":{"id":231065,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13355,"identifier":"IV","token":"46.2\/IV","url":"\/46.2\/IV\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12770,"edition_id":1,"name":"Motor Vehicles","identifier":"46.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","permalink":{"id":225289,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12770,"identifier":"46.2","token":"46.2","url":"\/46.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":60822,"structure_id":14806,"section_number":"46.2-1545.1","catch_line":"Watercraft trailer dealers and watercraft trailers","url":"\/46.2-1545.1\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/5\/46.2-1545.1","metadata":false},{"id":82643,"structure_id":14806,"section_number":"46.2-1545.2","catch_line":"Exclusion of transit buses, all-terrain vehicles, and off-road motorcycles","url":"\/46.2-1545.2\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/5\/46.2-1545.2","metadata":false},{"id":75245,"structure_id":14806,"section_number":"46.2-1546","catch_line":"Registration of dealers; 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This law was first created in 1988. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 865 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1989, chapter 727; in 1991, chapter 712; in 1995, chapters 767<\/a> and 816<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":72295,"section_number":"46.2-1550","catch_line":"Use of dealer's and manufacturer's license plates, generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-1550\/"}],"permalink":{"id":231429,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59153,"identifier":"46.2-1551","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/5\/46.2-1551","url":"\/46.2-1551\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1551\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/5\/46.2-1551","dublin_core":{"Title":"Use of dealer’s license plates or temporary transport plates on certain vehicles traveling from one establishment to another for purpose of having special equipment installed","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1551","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Notwithstanding the provisions of \u00a7 46.2-1550<\/a>, dealer<\/span>’s license plates<\/span> or temporary transport plates may be used<\/span> on tractor trucks<\/span> or trucks for the purpose of delivering these vehicles<\/span> to another establishment for the purpose of having a fifth wheel, body, or any special permanently mounted equipment installed on the vehicles<\/span>, and for the purpose of returning the vehicle<\/span> to the dealer<\/span> whose plates are attached to the tractor truck<\/span> or truck whether or not the title to the vehicle<\/span> has been retained by the dealer<\/span>, and no other license, permit, warrant, exemption card, or classification plate from any other agency of the Commonwealth shall be required under these circumstances. No other statute<\/span> or regulation in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be applicable to the extent of the conflict. This section shall also apply to trips into the Commonwealth by a vehicle<\/span> owned and operated outside the Commonwealth to an establishment within the Commonwealth and to the return trip of that vehicle<\/span> from the Commonwealth to another state, provided the operator<\/span> of the vehicle<\/span> carries on his person when so operating a bill of sale for the fifth wheel, body, or special equipment.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nUSE OF DEALER’S LICENSE PLATES OR TEMPORARY TRANSPORT PLATES ON CERTAIN\nVEHICLES TRAVELING FROM ONE ESTABLISHMENT TO ANOTHER FOR PURPOSE OF HAVING\nSPECIAL EQUIPMENT INSTALLED (\u00a7 46.2-1551)\n\nNotwithstanding the provisions of \u00a7 46.2-1550, dealer’s license plates or\ntemporary transport plates may be used on tractor trucks or trucks for the\npurpose of delivering these vehicles to another establishment for the purpose of\nhaving a fifth wheel, body, or any special permanently mounted equipment\ninstalled on the vehicles, and for the purpose of returning the vehicle to the\ndealer whose plates are attached to the tractor truck or truck whether or not\nthe title to the vehicle has been retained by the dealer, and no other license,\npermit, warrant, exemption card, or classification plate from any other agency\nof the Commonwealth shall be required under these circumstances. No other\nstatute or regulation in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be\napplicable to the extent of the conflict. This section shall also apply to trips\ninto the Commonwealth by a vehicle owned and operated outside the Commonwealth\nto an establishment within the Commonwealth and to the return trip of that\nvehicle from the Commonwealth to another state, provided the operator of the\nvehicle carries on his person when so operating a bill of sale for the fifth\nwheel, body, or special equipment.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 865, \u00a7 46.1-550.5:9; 1989, c. 727; 1991, c. 712; 1995, cc.\n767, 816.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}