                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VEHICLES EXCLUDED FROM OPERATION OF CHAPTER (§ 46.2-2000.1)

This chapter shall not be construed to include:

1. Motor vehicles employed solely in transporting school children and teachers;

2. Taxicabs, or other motor vehicles performing bona fide taxicab service,
having a seating capacity of not more than six passengers, excluding the driver,
while operating in a county, city, or town which has or adopts an ordinance
regulating and controlling taxicabs and other vehicles performing a bona fide
taxicab service, and not operating on a regular route or between fixed termini;

3. Motor vehicles owned or operated by or on behalf of hotels while used
exclusively for the transportation of hotel patronage between hotels and local
railroad or other common carrier stations;

4. Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States, the District of
Columbia, or any state, or any municipality or any other political subdivision
of this Commonwealth, including passenger-carrying motor vehicles while being
operated under an exclusive contract with the United States;

5. Any motor vehicle designed with a seating capacity for and used to transport
not more than 15 passengers, including the driver, if the driver and the
passengers are engaged in a share-the-ride undertaking and if they share not
more than the expenses of operation of the vehicle. Regular payments toward a
capital recovery fund not exceeding the cost of the vehicle or used to pay for
leasing the vehicle are to be considered eligible expenses of operation;

6. Unless otherwise provided, motor vehicles while used exclusively in the
transportation of passengers within the corporate limits of incorporated cities
or towns, and motor vehicles used exclusively in the regular transportation of
passengers within the boundaries of such cities or towns and adjacent counties
where such vehicles are being operated by such county or pursuant to a contract
with the board of supervisors of such county;

7. Motor vehicles while operated under the exclusive regulatory control of a
transportation district commission acting pursuant to the Transportation
District Act of 1964 (&#xA7; 33.2-1900 et seq.) of Title 33.2;

8. Motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers by nonprofit,
nonstock corporations funded solely by federal, state or local subsidies, the
use of which motor vehicles are restricted as to regular and irregular routes to
contracts with four or more counties and, at the commencement of the operation,
no certificated carrier provides the same or similar services within such
counties; and

9. Emergency medical services vehicles as defined in &#xA7; 32.1-111.1.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 56-274; 1950, p. 370; 1958, c. 285; 1966, c. 575; 1968,
c. 183; 1970, c. 33; 1973, c. 460; 1975, c. 122; 1976, cc. 378, 411; 1977, c.
514; 1978, c. 152; 1979, cc. 608, 618; 1980, c. 230; 1982, c. 257; 1983, c. 112;
1985, c. 88; 1986, c. 420; 1989, c. 625; 1995, cc. 744, 803; 2001, c. 596; 2002,
c. 337; 2011, cc. 881, 889; 2015, cc. 502, 503.