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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68942</law_id><section_number>46.2-677</section_number><catch_line>Self-propelled wheelchairs</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-100</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="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">Exemptions from Registration</unit></structure><text>
						<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 any registration fee for any self-propelled wheelchair or self-propelled wheelchair conveyance provided it is:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Operated by a person who is capable of operating it properly and safely but who, by reason of physical disability, is otherwise unable to move about as a pedestrian; and <a id="paragraph-249598" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-677/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Not operated on a public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> in this Commonwealth except to the extent necessary to cross the <span class="dictionary">highway</span>. <a id="paragraph-249599" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-677/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1973, c. 194, &#xA7; 46.1-45.2; 1980, c. 37; 1986, c. 220; 1987, cc. 151, 342, 388; 1989, c. 727; 2016, c. 142.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
