                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE) FEES FOR VEHICLES DESIGNED AND USED FOR
TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS; WEIGHTS USED FOR COMPUTING FEES; BURDEN OF PROOF
(§ 46.2-694)

A. The annual registration fees for motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers
designed and used for the transportation of passengers on the highways in the
Commonwealth are:

   1. Twenty-three dollars for each private passenger car or motor home if the
   passenger car or motor home weighs 4,000 pounds or less, provided that it is
   not used for the transportation of passengers for compensation and is not kept
   or used for rent or for hire, or is not operated under a lease without a
   chauffeur; however, the fee provided under this subdivision shall apply to a
   private passenger car or motor home that weighs 4,000 pounds or less and is
   used as a TNC partner vehicle as defined in &#xA7; 46.2-2000.

   2. Twenty-eight dollars for each private passenger car or motor home that
   weighs more than 4,000 pounds, provided that it is not used for the
   transportation of passengers for compensation and is not kept or used for rent
   or for hire, or is not operated under a lease without a chauffeur; however,
   the fee provided under this subdivision shall apply to a private passenger car
   or motor home that weighs more than 4,000 pounds and is used as a TNC partner
   vehicle as defined in &#xA7; 46.2-2000.

   3. Thirty cents per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for a private motor
   vehicle other than a motorcycle with a normal seating capacity of more than 10
   adults, including the driver, if the private motor vehicle is not used for the
   transportation of passengers for compensation and is not kept or used for rent
   or for hire or is not operated under a lease without a chauffeur. In no case
   shall the fee be less than $23 if the vehicle weighs 4,000 pounds or less or
   $28 if the vehicle weighs more than 4,000 pounds.

   4. Thirty cents per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for a school bus. In
   no case shall the fee be less than $23 if the vehicle weighs 4,000 pounds or
   less or $28 if the vehicle weighs more than 4,000 pounds.

   5. Twenty-three dollars for each trailer or semitrailer designed for use as
   living quarters for human beings.

   6. Thirteen dollars plus $0.30 per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for
   each motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used as a common carrier of
   passengers, operating either intrastate or interstate. Interstate common
   carriers of interstate passengers may elect to be licensed and pay the fees
   prescribed in subdivision 7 on submission to the Commissioner of a declaration
   of operations and equipment as he may prescribe. An additional $5 shall be
   charged if the motor vehicle weighs more than 4,000 pounds.

   7. Thirteen dollars plus $0.70 per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for
   each motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used as a common carrier of
   interstate passengers if election is made to be licensed under this
   subsection. An additional $5 shall be charged if the motor vehicle weighs more
   than 4,000 pounds. In lieu of the foregoing fee of $0.70 per 100 pounds, a
   motor carrier of passengers, operating two or more vehicles both within and
   outside the Commonwealth and registered for insurance purposes with the
   Surface Transportation Board of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal
   Highway Administration, may apply to the Commissioner for prorated
   registration. Upon the filing of such application, in such form as the
   Commissioner may prescribe, the Commissioner shall apportion the registration
   fees provided in this subsection so that the total registration fees to be
   paid for such vehicles of such carrier shall be that proportion of the total
   fees, if there were no apportionment, that the total number of miles traveled
   by such vehicles of such carrier within the Commonwealth bears to the total
   number of miles traveled by such vehicles within and outside the Commonwealth.
   Such total mileage in each instance is the estimated total mileage to be
   traveled by such vehicles during the license year for which such fees are
   paid, subject to the adjustment in accordance with an audit to be made by
   representatives of the Commissioner at the end of such license year, the
   expense of such audit to be borne by the carrier being audited. Each vehicle
   passing into or through Virginia shall be registered and licensed in Virginia
   and the annual registration fee to be paid for each such vehicle shall not be
   less than $33. For the purpose of determining such apportioned registration
   fees, only those motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers operated both
   within and outside the Commonwealth shall be subject to inclusion in
   determining the apportionment provided for herein.

   8. Thirteen dollars plus $0.80 per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for
   each motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer kept or used for rent or for hire
   or operated under a lease without a chauffeur for the transportation of
   passengers. An additional fee of $5 shall be charged if the vehicle weighs
   more than 4,000 pounds. This subdivision does not apply to vehicles used as
   common carriers or as TNC partner vehicles as defined in &#xA7; 46.2-2000.

   9. Twenty-three dollars for a taxicab or other vehicle which is kept for rent
   or hire operated with a chauffeur for the transportation of passengers, and
   which operates or should operate under permits issued by the Department as
   required by law. An additional fee of $5 shall be charged if the vehicle
   weighs more than 4,000 pounds. This subdivision does not apply to vehicles
   used as common carriers or as TNC partner vehicles as defined in &#xA7;
   46.2-2000.

   10. Eighteen dollars for a motorcycle, with or without a sidecar. To this fee
   shall be added a surcharge of $3, which shall be distributed as provided in
   &#xA7; 46.2-1191.
   				10a. Fourteen dollars for a moped, to be paid into the state treasury and
   set aside as a special fund to be used to meet the expenses of the Department.
   				10b. Eighteen dollars for an autocycle.

   11. Twenty-three dollars for a bus used exclusively for transportation to and
   from church school, for the purpose of religious instruction, or church, for
   the purpose of divine worship. If the empty weight of the vehicle exceeds
   4,000 pounds, the fee shall be $28.

   12. Thirteen dollars plus $0.70 per 100 pounds or major fraction thereof for
   other passenger-carrying vehicles.

   13. An additional fee of $4.25 per year shall be charged and collected at the
   time of registration of each pickup or panel truck and each motor vehicle
   under subdivisions 1 through 12. All funds collected from $4 of the $4.25 fee
   shall be paid into the state treasury and shall be set aside as a special fund
   to be used only for emergency medical services purposes. The moneys in the
   special emergency medical services fund shall be distributed as follows:
   				a. Two percent shall be distributed to the State Department of Health to
   provide funding to the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads to be
   used solely for the purpose of conducting volunteer recruitment, retention and
   training activities;
   				b. Thirty percent shall be distributed to the State Department of Health
   to support (i) emergency medical services training programs (excluding
   advanced life support classes); (ii) advanced life support training; (iii)
   recruitment and retention programs (all funds for such support shall be used
   to recruit and retain volunteer emergency medical services personnel only,
   including public awareness campaigns, technical assistance programs, and
   similar activities); (iv) emergency medical services system development,
   initiatives, and priorities based on needs identified by the State Emergency
   Medical Services Advisory Board; (v) local, regional, and statewide
   performance contracts for emergency medical services to meet the objectives
   stipulated in &#xA7; 32.1-111.3; (vi) technology and radio communication
   enhancements; and (vii) improved emergency preparedness and response. Any
   funds set aside for distribution under this provision and remaining
   undistributed at the end of any fiscal year shall revert to the Rescue Squad
   Assistance Fund;
   				c. Thirty-two percent shall be distributed to the Rescue Squad Assistance
   Fund;
   				d. Ten percent shall be available to the State Department of
   Health&#8217;s Office of Emergency Medical Services for use in emergency
   medical services; and
   				e. Twenty-six percent shall be returned by the Comptroller to the locality
   wherein such vehicle is registered, to provide funding for training of
   volunteer or salaried emergency medical services personnel of nonprofit
   emergency medical services agencies that hold a valid license issued by the
   Commissioner of Health and for the purchase of necessary equipment and
   supplies for use in such locality for emergency medical services provided by
   nonprofit or volunteer emergency medical services agencies that hold a valid
   license issued by the Commissioner of Health.
   				All revenues generated by the remaining $0.25 of the $4.25 fee approved by
   the 2008 Session of the General Assembly shall be deposited into the Rescue
   Squad Assistance Fund and used only to pay for the costs associated with the
   certification and recertification training of emergency medical services
   personnel.
   				The Comptroller shall clearly designate on the warrant, check, or other
   means of transmitting these funds that such moneys are only to be used for
   purposes set forth in this subdivision. Such funds shall be in addition to any
   local appropriations and local governing bodies shall not use these funds to
   supplant local funds. Each local governing body shall report annually to the
   Board of Health on the use of the funds returned to it pursuant to this
   section. In any case in which the local governing body grants the funds to a
   regional emergency medical services council to be distributed to the emergency
   medical services agency that holds a valid license issued by the Commissioner
   of Health, the local governing body shall remain responsible for the proper
   use of the funds. If, at the end of any fiscal year, a report on the use of
   the funds returned to the locality pursuant to this section for that year has
   not been received from a local governing body, any funds due to that local
   governing body for the next fiscal year shall be retained until such time as
   the report has been submitted to the Board.

B. All motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers registered as provided in
subsection B of &#xA7; 46.2-646 shall pay a registration fee equal to
one-twelfth of all fees required by subsection A of this section or &#xA7;
46.2-697 for such motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, computed to the
nearest cent, multiplied by the number of months in the registration period for
such motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers.

C. The manufacturer&#8217;s shipping weight or scale weight shall be used for
computing all fees required by this section to be based upon the weight of the
vehicle.

D. The applicant for registration bears the burden of proof that the vehicle for
which registration is sought is entitled by weight, design, and use to be
registered at the fee tendered by the applicant to the Commissioner or to his
authorized agent.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 46-154 through 46-156, 46-158.1, 46-159, 46-163.1,
46-166.1; 1950, p. 621; 1952, cc. 224, 418; 1956, cc. 132, 597, 705; 1958, c.
541, § 46.1-149; 1960, c. 243; 1964, c. 218; 1972, c. 609; 1974, c. 170; 1978,
c. 708; 1980, c. 25; 1982, c. 671; 1983, c. 566; 1984, cc. 476, 545; 1985, c.
333; 1986, Sp. Sess., c. 11; 1988, cc. 701, 704; 1989, c. 727; 1990, c. 508;
1991, c. 472; 1994, c. 279; 1997, c. 283; 2002, c. 794; 2004, c. 194; 2005, c.
928; 2008, c. 182; 2013, c. 783; 2014, cc. 53, 256; 2015, cc. 2, 3, 502, 503.