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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0596\">596<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2011, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0881\">881<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0889\">889<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":360401,"section_number":"33.2-501","catch_line":"Designation of HOV lanes; use of such lanes; penalties","order_by":null,"url":"\/33.2-501\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1459465,"object_type":"law","relational_id":365307,"identifier":"46.2-2096","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/7\/46.2-2096","url":"\/46.2-2096\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-2096\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/7\/46.2-2096","dublin_core":{"Title":"Certificates required unless exempted","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-2096","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Unless otherwise exempted, no <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> shall engage in the business of a <span class=\"dictionary\">contract passenger carrier<\/span> by <span class=\"dictionary\">motor vehicle<\/span> on any <span class=\"dictionary\">highway<\/span> within the Commonwealth on an <span class=\"dictionary\">intrastate<\/span> basis unless such <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> has secured from the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> a <span class=\"dictionary\">certificate of fitness<\/span> authorizing such business.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCERTIFICATES REQUIRED UNLESS EXEMPTED (\u00a7 46.2-2096)\n\nUnless otherwise exempted, no person shall engage in the business of a contract\npassenger carrier by motor vehicle on any highway within the Commonwealth on an\nintrastate basis unless such person has secured from the Department a\ncertificate of fitness authorizing such business.\n\nHISTORY: 2001, c. 596; 2011, cc. 881, 889.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}