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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>364679</law_id><section_number>46.2-1077</section_number><catch_line>Motor vehicles not to be equipped with television within view of driver; viewing motion pictures or similar displays while driving</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="101" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="10" identifier="10">Miscellaneous Equipment</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> registered in the Commonwealth shall be equipped with, nor shall there be used therein, a television receiver when the moving images are visible to the <span class="dictionary">driver</span> while the vehicle is in <span class="dictionary">motion</span>. The <span class="dictionary">operator</span> of a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> that is not required to be registered in the Commonwealth shall not operate a television receiver that violates the provisions of this section while driving in the Commonwealth.
			The prohibitions contained in this subsection shall not, however, include: <a id="paragraph-1358664" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Electronic displays used in conjunction with vehicle navigation and mapping systems, or as part of a digital dispatch system; <a id="paragraph-1358665" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Closed <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> video monitors designed to operate only in conjunction with dedicated video cameras and used in rear-view systems on <span class="dictionary">trucks</span>, <span class="dictionary">motor homes</span>, and other <span class="dictionary">motor vehicles</span>; <a id="paragraph-1358666" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Television receivers or monitors used in government-owned vehicles by <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers</span> and employees of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Transportation in the course of their official duties; <a id="paragraph-1358667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Visual displays used to enhance or supplement the <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s view forward, behind, or to the sides of a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> for the purpose of maneuvering the vehicle; <a id="paragraph-1358668" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> A vehicle information display; <a id="paragraph-1358669" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> A visual display used to enhance or supplement a <span class="dictionary">driver</span>&#x2019;s view of vehicle occupants; <a id="paragraph-1358670" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> Television-type receiving equipment used exclusively for safety or traffic engineering information; or <a id="paragraph-1358671" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> A television receiver, video monitor, television or video screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a moving image, if that equipment is factory-installed and has an interlock device that, when the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> <span class="dictionary">operator</span> is performing one or more of the <span class="dictionary">driving tasks</span>, disables the equipment so that such moving images are not visible to the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> <span class="dictionary">operator</span> except as a visual display described in subdivisions 1 through 7. For the purposes of this subdivision, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">driving task</span>&#x201D; means all of the real-time functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding the selection of destinations and waypoints, and including steering, turning, <span class="dictionary">lane</span> keeping and <span class="dictionary">lane</span> changing, accelerating, and decelerating. <a id="paragraph-1358672" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Except for displays explicitly authorized in subsection A, no <span class="dictionary">driver</span> of any <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> shall view any <span class="dictionary">motion</span> picture or similar video display while driving. <a id="paragraph-1358673" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1077/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-219.1; 1950, p. 882; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-202; 1989, c. 727; 1994, c. 117; 2005, cc. 210, 913; 2007, c. 110; 2011, c. 275; 2016, cc. 302, 707.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
