                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WINDSHIELD WIPERS (§ 46.2-1055)

Every permanent windshield on a motor vehicle shall be equipped with a device
for cleaning snow, rain, moisture, or other matter from the windshield directly
in front of the driver. The device shall be so constructed as to be controlled
or operated by the driver of the vehicle. Every such device on a school bus or a
vehicle designed or used to carry passengers for compensation or hire or as a
public conveyance shall be of a mechanically or electrically operated type. The
device or devices on any motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after January
1, 1943, shall clean both the right and left sides of the windshield and shall
be of a mechanically or electrically operated type.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-296; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-292; 1989, c. 727.