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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71761</law_id><section_number>46.2-453</section_number><catch_line>Proof of financial responsibility by delivering cash or securities</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-440</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="15">Proof of Financial Responsibility</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person may give proof of <span class="dictionary">financial responsibility</span> by delivering to the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> cash or securities equal to the sum of the liability coverage required for bodily injury or death of two or more persons in any one accident and injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident as prescribed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Coverage of owner's policy" href="/46.2-472/">46.2-472</a>. Securities so deposited shall be such as public bodies may invest in according to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Legal investments for public sinking funds" href="/2.2-4500/">2.2-4500</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-474; 1954, c. 378; 1958, cc. 501, 541, &#xA7; 46.1-485; 1968, c. 685; 1978, c. 220; 1980, c. 484; 1986, c. 16; 1989, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
