{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/46.2-2011.21.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/46.2-2011.21.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/46.2-2011.21.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/46.2-2011.21.html"}],"law_id":60166,"edition_id":1,"section_id":60166,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2011.21","catch_line":"Registration and identification violations; penalties","history":"2001, c. 596.","full_text":"A\n\nThe following violations of laws shall be punished as follows:1\n\nAny person who does not obtain a proper registration card, identification marker, or other evidence of registration as required by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.2\n\nAny person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth any motor vehicle that does not carry the proper registration and identification that this article requires or any motor vehicle that does not display (i) an identification marker in such manner as is prescribed by the Department or (ii) other identifying information that this article requires it to display shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.3\n\nAny person who knowingly displays or uses on any vehicle operated by him any identification marker or other identification that has not been issued to the owner or operator thereof for such vehicle and any person who knowingly assists him to do so shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.4\n\nAny person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth any motor vehicle requiring registration from the Department under this title after such registration cards or identification markers have been revoked, canceled or suspended shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.B\n\nThe officer charging the violation under this section shall serve a citation on the operator of the vehicle in violation. Such citation shall be directed to the owner, operator or other person responsible for the violation as determined by the officer. Service of the citation on the vehicle operator shall constitute service of process upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the violation under this article, and shall have the same legal force as if served within the Commonwealth personally upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the violation, whether such owner, operator, or other person charged is a resident or nonresident.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":220117,"text":"The following violations of laws shall be punished as follows:","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"A1"},"1":{"id":220118,"text":"Any person who does not obtain a proper registration card, identification marker, or other evidence of registration as required by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"A1","prefix_anchor":"A1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"A2"},"2":{"id":220119,"text":"Any person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth any motor vehicle that does not carry the proper registration and identification that this article requires or any motor vehicle that does not display (i) an identification marker in such manner as is prescribed by the Department or (ii) other identifying information that this article requires it to display shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"A2","prefix_anchor":"A2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A1","next_prefix":"A3"},"3":{"id":220120,"text":"Any person who knowingly displays or uses on any vehicle operated by him any identification marker or other identification that has not been issued to the owner or operator thereof for such vehicle and any person who knowingly assists him to do so shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"A3","prefix_anchor":"A3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A2","next_prefix":"A4"},"4":{"id":220121,"text":"Any person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth any motor vehicle requiring registration from the Department under this title after such registration cards or identification markers have been revoked, canceled or suspended shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"A4","prefix_anchor":"A4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A3","next_prefix":"B"},"5":{"id":220122,"text":"The officer charging the violation under this section shall serve a citation on the operator of the vehicle in violation. Such citation shall be directed to the owner, operator or other person responsible for the violation as determined by the officer. Service of the citation on the vehicle operator shall constitute service of process upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the violation under this article, and shall have the same legal force as if served within the Commonwealth personally upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the violation, whether such owner, operator, or other person charged is a resident or nonresident.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A4"}},"ancestry":[{"id":13602,"edition_id":1,"name":"Motor Carriers of Passengers -- Generally","identifier":"1","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13319,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:45:21","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:45:21","permalink":{"id":231969,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13602,"identifier":"1","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1","url":"\/46.2\/V\/20\/1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13319,"edition_id":1,"name":"Regulation of Passenger Carriers","identifier":"20","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13318,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:38","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:38","permalink":{"id":231967,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13319,"identifier":"20","token":"46.2\/V\/20","url":"\/46.2\/V\/20\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13318,"edition_id":1,"name":"Motor Carriers","identifier":"V","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12770,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:38","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:38","permalink":{"id":231965,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13318,"identifier":"V","token":"46.2\/V","url":"\/46.2\/V\/","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":70585,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2000","catch_line":"Definitions","url":"\/46.2-2000\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2000","metadata":false},{"id":61587,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2000.1","catch_line":"Vehicles excluded from operation of chapter","url":"\/46.2-2000.1\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2000.1","metadata":false},{"id":64116,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2000.2","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/46.2-2000.2\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2000.2","metadata":false},{"id":60745,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2000.3","catch_line":"Disposition of funds collected","url":"\/46.2-2000.3\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2000.3","metadata":false},{"id":57606,"structure_id":13602,"section_number":"46.2-2001","catch_line":"Regulation by Department; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0596\">596<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":232075,"object_type":"law","relational_id":60166,"identifier":"46.2-2011.21","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2011.21","url":"\/46.2-2011.21\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-2011.21\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/1\/46.2-2011.21","dublin_core":{"Title":"Registration and identification violations; penalties","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-2011.21","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> The following violations of <span class=\"dictionary\">laws<\/span> shall be punished as follows: <a id=\"paragraph-220117\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A1\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">1.<\/span> Any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who does not obtain a proper registration card, <span class=\"dictionary\">identification marker<\/span>, or other <span class=\"dictionary\">evidence<\/span> of registration as required by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-220118\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#A1\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A2\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">2.<\/span> Any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who operates or causes to be operated on any <span class=\"dictionary\">highway<\/span> in the Commonwealth any <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span> that does not carry the proper registration and identification that this article requires or any <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span> that does not display (i) an <span class=\"dictionary\">identification marker<\/span> in such manner as is prescribed by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> or (ii) other identifying information that this article requires it to display shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-220119\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#A2\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A3\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">3.<\/span> Any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who knowingly displays or uses on any vehicle operated by him any <span class=\"dictionary\">identification marker<\/span> or other identification that has not been issued to the <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span> thereof for such vehicle and any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who knowingly assists him to do so shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-220120\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#A3\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A4\" class=\"indent-1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">4.<\/span> Any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who operates or causes to be operated on any <span class=\"dictionary\">highway<\/span> in the Commonwealth any <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span> requiring registration from the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> under this title after such registration cards or <span class=\"dictionary\">identification markers<\/span> have been revoked, canceled or suspended shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-220121\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#A4\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> The officer charging the violation under this section shall serve a <span class=\"dictionary\">citation<\/span> on the <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span> of the vehicle in violation. Such <span class=\"dictionary\">citation<\/span> shall be directed to the <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span> or other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> responsible for the violation as determined by the officer. Service of the <span class=\"dictionary\">citation<\/span> on the vehicle <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span> shall constitute <span class=\"dictionary\">service of process<\/span> upon the <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span>, or other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> charged with the violation under this article, and shall have the same legal force as if served within the Commonwealth personally upon the <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span>, or other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> charged with the violation, whether such <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span>, or other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> charged is a resident or <span class=\"dictionary\">nonresident<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-220122\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/46.2-2011.21\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION VIOLATIONS; PENALTIES (\u00a7 46.2-2011.21)\n\nA. The following violations of laws shall be punished as follows:\n\n   1. Any person who does not obtain a proper registration card, identification\n   marker, or other evidence of registration as required by this chapter shall be\n   guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.\n\n   2. Any person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the\n   Commonwealth any motor vehicle that does not carry the proper registration and\n   identification that this article requires or any motor vehicle that does not\n   display (i) an identification marker in such manner as is prescribed by the\n   Department or (ii) other identifying information that this article requires it\n   to display shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.\n\n   3. Any person who knowingly displays or uses on any vehicle operated by him\n   any identification marker or other identification that has not been issued to\n   the owner or operator thereof for such vehicle and any person who knowingly\n   assists him to do so shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.\n\n   4. Any person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in the\n   Commonwealth any motor vehicle requiring registration from the Department\n   under this title after such registration cards or identification markers have\n   been revoked, canceled or suspended shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.\n\nB. The officer charging the violation under this section shall serve a citation\non the operator of the vehicle in violation. Such citation shall be directed to\nthe owner, operator or other person responsible for the violation as determined\nby the officer. Service of the citation on the vehicle operator shall constitute\nservice of process upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the\nviolation under this article, and shall have the same legal force as if served\nwithin the Commonwealth personally upon the owner, operator, or other person\ncharged with the violation, whether such owner, operator, or other person\ncharged is a resident or nonresident.\n\nHISTORY: 2001, c. 596.","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}}