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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82860</law_id><section_number>46.2-1205</section_number><catch_line>Disposition of inoperable abandoned vehicles</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1207</reference><reference>46.2-1601.3</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="12">Abandoned, Immobilized, Unattended and Trespassing Vehicles; Parking</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Abandoned Vehicles</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> For the purposes of this section, &#x201C;demolisher&#x201D; has the meaning ascribed to it in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-1600/">46.2-1600</a>. <a id="paragraph-297014" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1205/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, any inoperable motor vehicle, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span>, or part of a motor vehicle, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> which has been taken into <span class="dictionary">custody</span> pursuant to other provisions of this article may be disposed of to a demolisher, without the title and without the notification procedures, by the person or locality on whose property or in whose <span class="dictionary">possession</span> the motor vehicle, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> is found. Such demolisher shall be properly licensed under the provisions of Chapter 16 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-1600/">46.2-1600</a> et seq.). The demolisher, on taking <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the inoperable <span class="dictionary">abandoned motor vehicle</span>, shall notify the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> on forms and in the manner prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, no other report or notice shall be required in this instance. <a id="paragraph-297015" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1205/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1968, c. 421, &#xA7; 46.1-555.7; 1972, c. 375; 1974, c. 454; 1989, c. 727; 2014, c. 58.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
