                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SUFFICIENCY OF PROOF IN ACTION ON POLICY; GUEST DOCTRINE NOT APPLICABLE (§
22.1-193)

In case any school pupil or personnel, except the driver when not a pupil,
whether riding in a vehicle or not, or any other person suffers injury,
including death, or property damage, including destruction, through the
ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a vehicle, it shall be sufficient,
in an action for recovery upon the policy, to prove such facts and circumstances
as are required to be shown in order to recover damages for death or injury to
person or property caused by the negligent operation of privately owned motor
vehicles in Virginia; provided that such pupils and personnel shall not be
considered as guests, and § 8.01-63 shall not apply to them.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 22-289; 1980, c. 559.