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No refund or credit of fees paid by dealers to the Department for temporary license plates shall be allowed, except that when the Department discontinues the right of a dealer to issue temporary license plates, the dealer, on returning temporary license plates to the Department, may receive a refund or a credit for them.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":203533,"text":"Temporary license plates shall expire on the receipt of the permanent license plates from the Department, or on the rescission of a contract to purchase a motor vehicle, or on the expiration of thirty days from the date of issuance, whichever occurs first. No refund or credit of fees paid by dealers to the Department for temporary license plates shall be allowed, except that when the Department discontinues the right of a dealer to issue temporary license plates, the dealer, on returning temporary license plates to the Department, may receive a refund or a credit for them.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":14273,"edition_id":1,"name":"Issuance of Temporary License Plates by Dealers","identifier":"6","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13356,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:47:34","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:47:34","permalink":{"id":231469,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14273,"identifier":"6","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6","url":"\/46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/","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":66388,"structure_id":14273,"section_number":"46.2-1557.3","catch_line":"Exclusion of transit buses, all-terrain vehicles, and off-road motorcycles","url":"\/46.2-1557.3\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1557.3","metadata":false},{"id":78699,"structure_id":14273,"section_number":"46.2-1557.4","catch_line":"Watercraft trailer dealers and watercraft trailers","url":"\/46.2-1557.4\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1557.4","metadata":false},{"id":85594,"structure_id":14273,"section_number":"46.2-1558","catch_line":"Issuance of temporary license plates to dealers and vehicle owners","url":"\/46.2-1558\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1558","metadata":false},{"id":82944,"structure_id":14273,"section_number":"46.2-1558.1","catch_line":"Alternative print-on-demand program for issuance of temporary license plates to dealers and vehicle owners","url":"\/46.2-1558.1\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1558.1","metadata":false},{"id":63240,"structure_id":14273,"section_number":"46.2-1559","catch_line":"Records to be kept by dealers; 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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 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 1989, chapter 727.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":231511,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55535,"identifier":"46.2-1565","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1565","url":"\/46.2-1565\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1565\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/6\/46.2-1565","dublin_core":{"Title":"When plates to expire; refunds or credit","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1565","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Temporary <span class=\"dictionary\">license plates<\/span> shall expire on the receipt of the permanent <span class=\"dictionary\">license plates<\/span> from the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>, or on the rescission of a <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> to purchase a <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span>, or on the expiration of thirty days from the date of issuance, whichever occurs first. 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No refund or credit of fees paid by dealers to the\nDepartment for temporary license plates shall be allowed, except that when the\nDepartment discontinues the right of a dealer to issue temporary license plates,\nthe dealer, on returning temporary license plates to the Department, may receive\na refund or a credit for them.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 865, \u00a7 46.1-550.5:23; 1989, c. 727.","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}}