                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MIRRORS (§ 46.2-1082)

No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway in the Commonwealth if the
vehicle is not equipped with a mirror which reflects to the driver a view of the
highway for a distance of not less than 200 feet to the rear of such vehicle.
		No motor vehicle registered in the Commonwealth, designed and licensed
primarily for passenger vehicular transportation on the public highways and
manufactured after 1968 shall be driven on the highways in the Commonwealth
unless equipped with at least one outside and at least one inside rear view
mirror meeting the requirements of this section.
		Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, no motor vehicle which
either has no rear window, or which has a rear window so obstructed as to
prevent rearward vision by means of an inside rear view mirror, shall be
required to be equipped with an inside rear view mirror if such motor vehicle
has horizontally and vertically adjustable outside rear view mirrors installed
on both sides of such motor vehicle in such a manner as to provide the driver of
such motor vehicle a rearward view along both sides of such motor vehicle for at
least 200 feet.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-294; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-289; 1968, c. 730; 1980, c.
13; 1989, c. 727.