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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71881</law_id><section_number>8.01-307</section_number><catch_line>Definition of terms &amp;#8220;motor vehicle&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;nonresident&amp;#8221; in motor vehicle and aircraft accident cases</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-285</reference><reference>8.01-308</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Process</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Who to Be Served</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purpose of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Service on Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles as agent for nonresident motor vehicle operator" href="/8.01-308/">8.01-308</a> through <a class="law" title="Specific addresses for mailing by statutory agent and resident agent" href="/8.01-313/">8.01-313</a>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The term &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>&#x201D; shall mean every vehicle which is self-propelled or designed for self-propulsion and every vehicle drawn by or designed to be drawn by a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> and includes every device in, upon, or by which any <span class="dictionary">person</span> or property is or can be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human or animal power and devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. <a id="paragraph-258987" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-307/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The term &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">nonresident</span>&#x201D; includes any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who, though a resident of the Commonwealth when the accident or collision specified in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles as agent for nonresident motor vehicle operator" href="/8.01-308/">8.01-308</a> or &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on Secretary of Commonwealth as agent of nonresident operator or owner of aircraft" href="/8.01-309/">8.01-309</a> occurred, has been continuously outside the Commonwealth for at least sixty days next preceding the date when process is left with the Commissioner of the Department of <span class="dictionary">Motor Vehicles</span> or the Secretary of the Commonwealth and includes any <span class="dictionary">person</span> against whom an <span class="dictionary">order</span> of publication may be issued under the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service by publication; when available" href="/8.01-316/">8.01-316</a>. <a id="paragraph-258988" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-307/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-67.1; 1950, p. 620; 1952, c. 681; 1956, c. 64; 1966, c. 518; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
