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§ 46.2-389. Required revocation for one year
upon conviction or finding of guilty of certain offenses;
exceptions.
A. The Commissioner shall forthwith revoke, and not
thereafter reissue for a period of time specified in subsection
B, except as provided in § 18.2-271 or § 18.2-271.1,
the driver's license of any resident or nonresident on receiving
a record of his conviction or a record of his having been
found guilty in the case of a juvenile of any of the following
crimes, committed in violation of a state law or a valid county,
city, or town ordinance or law of the United States, or a
law of any other state, substantially paralleling and substantially
conforming to a like state law and to all changes and amendments
of it:
1. Voluntary or involuntary
manslaughter resulting from the driving of a motor vehicle;
2. Violation of §
18.2-266 or § 18.2-272, or subsection A of § 46.2-341.24
or violation of a substantially similar local ordinance;
3. Perjury or the making
of a false affidavit to the Department under this chapter
or any other law of the Commonwealth requiring the registration
of motor vehicles or regulating their operation on the highways;
4. The making of a false
statement to the Department on any application for a driver's
license;
5. Any crime punishable
as a felony under the motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth
or any other felony in the commission of which a motor vehicle
is used;
6. Failure to stop and
disclose his identity at the scene of the accident, on the
part of a driver of a motor vehicle involved in an accident
resulting in the death of or injury to another person; or
7. Violation of §
18.2-36.1 or § 18.2-51.4.
B. Upon conviction of an offense set forth in subsection
A, the person's driver's license shall be revoked for one
year; however, for a violation of subdivision A 1 or A 7,
the driver's license shall be revoked as provided in subsection
B of § 46.2-391. However, in no such event shall the
Commissioner reinstate the driver's license of any person
convicted of a violation of § 18.2-266, or of a substantially
similar valid local ordinance or law of another jurisdiction,
until receipt of notification that such person has successfully
completed an alcohol safety action program if such person
was required by a court to do so unless the requirement for
completion of the program has been waived by the court for
good cause shown.
(Code 1950, § 46-416; 1958, cc. 496, 541, § 46.1-417;
1960, c. 364; 1966, c. 238; 1974, c. 453; 1976, cc. 612, 691;
1982, c. 301; 1984, c. 780; 1988, c. 860; 1989, cc. 705, 727;
1990, c. 949; 1992, cc. 109, 891; 1997, cc. 486, 691; 1999,
cc. 945, 987; 2000, cc. 956, 959, 982, 985.)
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