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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63763</law_id><section_number>46.2-753</section_number><catch_line>Additional license fees in certain localities</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="11">State and Local Motor Vehicle Registration</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, the governing bodies of Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, Fairfax City, and Falls Church are authorized to charge annual license fees, in addition to those specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Taxes and license fees imposed by counties, cities, and towns; limitations on amounts; disposition of revenues; requiring evidence of payment of personal property taxes and certain fines; prohibiting display of licenses after expiration; failure to display valid local license required by other localities; penalty" href="/46.2-752/">46.2-752</a>, on <span class="dictionary">passenger cars</span>, including <span class="dictionary">passenger cars</span> that are used as TNC partner vehicles as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-2000/">46.2-2000</a>, but not on <span class="dictionary">passenger cars</span> that are otherwise used for the transportation of passengers for compensation. The additional fee shall be no more than $5. The total local license fee shall be no more than $25 on any vehicle, and this license fee shall not be imposed on any <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> exempted under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Special license plates for certain disabled veterans; fees" href="/46.2-739/">46.2-739</a>.
		The governing bodies are also authorized to charge additional annual license fees on the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicles</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailers</span>, and <span class="dictionary">semitrailers</span> as specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Contingent effective date &#x2014; see Editor's note) Fees for vehicles not designed or used for transportation of passengers" href="/46.2-697/">46.2-697</a> in an amount of no more than $5 for each such vehicle. This authorization shall not increase the maximum chargeable by more than $5 or affect any existing exemption.
		Any funds acquired in excess of those allowed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Taxes and license fees imposed by counties, cities, and towns; limitations on amounts; disposition of revenues; requiring evidence of payment of personal property taxes and certain fines; prohibiting display of licenses after expiration; failure to display valid local license required by other localities; penalty" href="/46.2-752/">46.2-752</a>, shall be allocated to the Northern Virginia Transportation <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to be a credit to that locality making the payment for its share of any operating deficit assigned to it by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.</p></section></text><history>1974, c. 487; 1977, c. 258, &#xA7; 46.1-65.1; 1989, c. 727; 2015, cc. 2, 3.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
