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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55180</law_id><section_number>46.2-738</section_number><catch_line>Special license plates for amateur radio operators</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="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="10">Special License Plates</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, on request, may supply any amateur radio <span class="dictionary">operator</span> licensed by the federal government or an agency thereof with <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> bearing his official call letters.
		If more than one request is made for use, as provided in this section, of <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> having the same alpha-numeric, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall accept the first such application. Persons receiving amateur radio <span class="dictionary">operator</span> special <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> shall affix such plates only to <span class="dictionary">vehicles</span> to which they are the titled <span class="dictionary">owner</span>.
		The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall charge a fee of one dollar in addition to the prescribed cost of state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> for each set of <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> issued under the provisions of this section.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-22.1; 1952, c. 675; 1954, c. 630; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-105; 1987, c. 696; 1989, c. 727; 1996, cc. 943, 994; 2014, c. 331.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
