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The owner or lessee of a pickup or panel truck or sport utility vehicle claiming the exemption provided pursuant to this section shall be required to obtain a permanent farm use placard pursuant to \u00a7 46.2-684.2.\n\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles operated on a for-hire basis.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":296724,"text":"No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, license plates, or decals for or pay a registration fee for any motor vehicle or trailer, semitrailer, or fertilizer spreader drawn by a farm tractor used by a farmer, his tenant, agent or employee or a cotton ginner, peanut buyer, or fertilizer distributor to transport unginned cotton, peanuts, or fertilizer owned by the farmer, cotton ginner, peanut buyer, or fertilizer distributor from one farm to another, from farm to gin, from farm to dryer, from farm to market, or from fertilizer distributor to farm and on return to the distributor. 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It has been modified 16 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 1952, chapter 498; in 1956, chapters 292 and 568; in 1958, chapter 541; in 1962, chapters 214 and 535; in 1964, chapter 611; in 1966, chapter 654; in 1968, chapter 46; in 1970, chapter 192; in 1972, chapter 609; in 1973, chapter 495; in 1978, chapter 307; in 1988, chapters 76 and 568; in 1989, chapter 727; in 2016, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0142\">142<\/a>; in 2022, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0051\">51<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0052\">52<\/a>; in 2023, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0085\">85<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0086\">86<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":58944,"section_number":"46.2-1088.5","catch_line":"Reflectors or reflectorized material required on rear end of certain trailers","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-1088.5\/"},{"id":82626,"section_number":"46.2-1099","catch_line":"Further exemptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-1099\/"},{"id":54507,"section_number":"46.2-665","catch_line":"Vehicles used for agricultural or horticultural purposes","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-665\/"},{"id":62636,"section_number":"46.2-684.2","catch_line":"Permanent farm use placards","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-684.2\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":62636,"section_number":"46.2-684.2","catch_line":"Permanent farm use placards","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-684.2\/"}],"permalink":{"id":228297,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82778,"identifier":"46.2-672","token":"46.2\/II\/6\/6\/46.2-672","url":"\/46.2-672\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-672\/","token":"46.2\/II\/6\/6\/46.2-672","dublin_core":{"Title":"Certain vehicles transporting fertilizer, cotton, or peanuts","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-672","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, <span class=\"dictionary\">license plates<\/span>, or <span class=\"dictionary\">decals<\/span> for or pay a registration fee for any <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">trailer<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">semitrailer<\/span>, or fertilizer spreader drawn by a <span class=\"dictionary\">farm tractor<\/span> used by a farmer, his tenant, <span class=\"dictionary\">agent<\/span> or employee or a cotton ginner, peanut buyer, or fertilizer distributor to transport unginned cotton, peanuts, or fertilizer owned by the farmer, cotton ginner, peanut buyer, or fertilizer distributor from one farm to another, from farm to gin, from farm to dryer, from farm to market, or from fertilizer distributor to farm and on return to the distributor. 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