46.2-674 - Vehicles used by commercial fishermen.
§ 46.2-674. Vehicles used by commercial fishermen.
No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, licenseplates and decals, or pay a registration fee for any motor vehicle, trailer,or semitrailer used by commercial fishermen, their agents, or employees forthe purpose of:
1. Transporting boats or other equipment used in commercial fishing no morethan thirty miles between his place of residence or business and the waterswithin the territorial limits of the Commonwealth or the adjacent marginalseas;
2. Any return trip to his place of residence or business; or
3. Transporting harvested seafood no more than thirty miles between the placewhere the seafood is first brought ashore and the transporter's place ofbusiness or the location of the seafood's first point of sale.
(Code 1950, § 46-45; 1950, p. 693; 1952, c. 498; 1956, cc. 292, 568; 1958, c.541, § 46.1-45; 1962, cc. 214, 535; 1964, c. 611; 1966, c. 654; 1968, c. 46;1970, c. 192; 1972, c. 609; 1973, c. 495; 1978, c. 307; 1988, cc. 76, 568;1989, c. 727; 1997, c. 500.)