                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MOTOR VEHICLES NOT TO BE EQUIPPED WITH TELEVISION WITHIN VIEW OF DRIVER; VIEWING
MOTION PICTURES OR SIMILAR DISPLAYS WHILE DRIVING (§ 46.2-1077)

A. No motor vehicle registered in the Commonwealth shall be equipped with, nor
shall there be used therein, a television receiver when the moving images are
visible to the driver while the vehicle is in motion. The operator of a motor
vehicle that is not required to be registered in the Commonwealth shall not
operate a television receiver that violates the provisions of this section while
driving in the Commonwealth.
			The prohibitions contained in this subsection shall not, however, include:

   1. Electronic displays used in conjunction with vehicle navigation and mapping
   systems, or as part of a digital dispatch system;

   2. Closed circuit video monitors designed to operate only in conjunction with
   dedicated video cameras and used in rear-view systems on trucks, motor homes,
   and other motor vehicles;

   3. Television receivers or monitors used in government-owned vehicles by
   law-enforcement officers and employees of the Department of Transportation in
   the course of their official duties;

   4. Visual displays used to enhance or supplement the driver&#8217;s view
   forward, behind, or to the sides of a motor vehicle for the purpose of
   maneuvering the vehicle;

   5. A vehicle information display;

   6. A visual display used to enhance or supplement a driver&#8217;s view of
   vehicle occupants;

   7. Television-type receiving equipment used exclusively for safety or traffic
   engineering information; or

   8. A television receiver, video monitor, television or video screen, or any
   other similar means of visually displaying a moving image, if that equipment
   is factory-installed and has an interlock device that, when the motor vehicle
   operator is performing one or more of the driving tasks, disables the
   equipment so that such moving images are not visible to the motor vehicle
   operator except as a visual display described in subdivisions 1 through 7. For
   the purposes of this subdivision, &#8220;driving task&#8221; means all of the
   real-time functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic,
   excluding the selection of destinations and waypoints, and including steering,
   turning, lane keeping and lane changing, accelerating, and decelerating.

B. Except for displays explicitly authorized in subsection A, no driver of any
motor vehicle shall view any motion picture or similar video display while
driving.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-219.1; 1950, p. 882; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-202; 1989,
c. 727; 1994, c. 117; 2005, cc. 210, 913; 2007, c. 110; 2011, c. 275; 2016, cc.
302, 707.