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The bonding requirement for a Class A license may be reduced, at the discretion of the Department, on a showing by the school that no course of study for which tuition is collected lasts longer than thirty days or that the school collects no advance tuition other than equal monthly installments based on the length of the course of study. The minimum bond for any school shall be $5,000. The Department may collect against this bond in the case that the driver training school violates applicable state or federal law or regulation.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":253987,"text":"The applicant shall file a surety bond in the amount of $100,000 for a Class A licensee and $5,000 for a Class B licensee. The bond shall be payable to the Commonwealth of Virginia and conditioned to protect the contractual rights of students. 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This law was first created in 1991. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 214 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 1991 \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 2019, chapter 750<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":231879,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70361,"identifier":"46.2-1701.1","token":"46.2\/IV\/17\/1\/46.2-1701.1","url":"\/46.2-1701.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1701.1\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/17\/1\/46.2-1701.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Bond of applicants","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1701.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The applicant shall file a surety<\/span> bond<\/span> in the amount of $100,000 for a Class A licensee<\/span> and $5,000 for a Class B licensee<\/span>. The bond<\/span> shall be payable to the Commonwealth of Virginia and conditioned to protect the contractual rights of students. The bonding requirement for a Class A license may be reduced, at the discretion of the Department<\/span>, on a showing by the school that no course of study for which tuition is collected lasts longer than thirty days or that the school collects no advance tuition other than equal monthly installments based on the length of the course of study. The minimum bond<\/span> for any school shall be $5,000. The Department<\/span> may collect against this bond<\/span> in the case that the driver training school<\/span> violates applicable state or federal law<\/span> or regulation.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOND OF APPLICANTS (\u00a7 46.2-1701.1)\n\nThe applicant shall file a surety bond in the amount of $100,000 for a Class A\nlicensee and $5,000 for a Class B licensee. The bond shall be payable to the\nCommonwealth of Virginia and conditioned to protect the contractual rights of\nstudents. The bonding requirement for a Class A license may be reduced, at the\ndiscretion of the Department, on a showing by the school that no course of study\nfor which tuition is collected lasts longer than thirty days or that the school\ncollects no advance tuition other than equal monthly installments based on the\nlength of the course of study. The minimum bond for any school shall be $5,000.\nThe Department may collect against this bond in the case that the driver\ntraining school violates applicable state or federal law or regulation.\n\nHISTORY: 1991, c. 214; 2019, c. 750.","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}}