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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77711</law_id><section_number>46.2-307</section_number><catch_line>Nonresidents licensed under laws of home state or country; extension of reciprocal privileges</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Drivers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">When License Not Required</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">nonresident</span> over the age of sixteen years and three months who has been duly licensed as a <span class="dictionary">driver</span> under a <span class="dictionary">law</span> requiring the licensing of <span class="dictionary">drivers</span> in his home state or country and who has in his immediate <span class="dictionary">possession</span> a <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s license issued to him in his home state or country shall be permitted, without a Virginia license, to drive a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> on the <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">highways</span></span> of the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-278739" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-307/#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 chapter, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, with the consent of the Governor, may extend to <span class="dictionary">nonresidents</span> from foreign countries the same <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s licensing <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> which are granted by the foreign country, or political subdivision wherein such <span class="dictionary">nonresidents</span> are residents, to residents of this Commonwealth residing in such foreign country or political subdivision. <a id="paragraph-278740" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-307/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> <span class="dictionary">Driver</span>&#x2019;s license <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> may be extended to <span class="dictionary">nonresidents</span> from foreign countries or political subdivisions who are over the age of sixteen years and three months, have been duly licensed as <span class="dictionary">drivers</span> under a <span class="dictionary">law</span> requiring the licensing of <span class="dictionary">drivers</span> in their home country or political subdivision, and have in their immediate <span class="dictionary">possession</span> a <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s license issued to them in their home country or political subdivision. <a id="paragraph-278741" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-307/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-351; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-355; 1984, c. 780; 1989, cc. 705, 727; 1997, c. 486; 2002, c. 755.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
