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HB63: Motor vehicle; forfeiture thereof for two or more offenses of driving without valid license.
Chief Patron
Del.
Bob Marshall (R-13)
Bob Marshall
(R-13)
Manassas, VA
Served: 1992–
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Status
01/10/2008: In Courts of Justice Committee
Summary
Forfeiture of motor vehicle for two or more offenses of driving without a valid operator's license. Provides that any motor vehicle owned by the operator and used to commit a second offense of driving without a valid operator's license shall be forfeited. Also the bill provides that any vehicle knowingly used to commit a second such violation by a person who is not the owner thereof shall be subject to impoundment under § 46.2-301.1, and the person shall be fined an amount equivalent to the fair market value of the vehicle.
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Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/10/2008, 02/08/2008 and 02/08/2008.
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Comments
We have witnessed within the traffic courts that illegal aliens escape most penalties with judges waiving most of the fines. We also need to ensure that the "operator" does not have a motor vehicle legally registered.
We need to remove the tags.
If you want to curb the problem, make the second offense punishable by a mandatory jail time of at least 60-180 days.
Illegal aliens don't care about such laws since they are here illegally to begin with. And stealing their cars from them probably won't affect them much either when the car is barely worth the tax, title, and tags.
How about we just send them back to where they came from, and put more forces on the border for a change?
This type of law is just another patch that doesn't deal with the root of the problem.
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