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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56648</law_id><section_number>46.2-391.1</section_number><catch_line>Suspension of registration certificates and plates upon suspension or revocation of driver&amp;#8217;s license</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-390</reference><reference>46.2-411</reference><reference>46.2-490.1</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="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="12">Suspension and Revocation of Licenses, Generally; Additional Penalties</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, under the authority of <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth, <span class="dictionary">suspends</span> or <span class="dictionary">revokes</span> the <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s license of any person upon receiving record of that person&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall also <span class="dictionary">suspend</span> all of the registration certificates and <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> issued for any <span class="dictionary">motor vehicles</span> registered solely in the name of such person and shall not <span class="dictionary">issue</span> any registration certificate or <span class="dictionary">license plate</span> for any other vehicle that such person seeks to register solely in his name. The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall not <span class="dictionary">suspend</span> such registration certificates or <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> in the event that such person has previously given or gives and thereafter maintains proof of his <span class="dictionary">financial responsibility in the future</span>, in the manner specified in this chapter, with respect to each and every <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> owned and registered by such person. In this event it shall be lawful for said vehicle or vehicles to be operated during this period of <span class="dictionary">suspension</span> by any duly licensed <span class="dictionary">driver</span> when so authorized by the <span class="dictionary">owner</span>.</p></section></text><history>1992, c. 109; 1994, cc. 841, 945; 2020, cc. 964, 965.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
