No person shall remove any inspection sticker or any paper issued by the Superintendent in connection with vehicle safety inspections from the custody of any person to whom the same has been issued by or under the authority of the Superintendent of State Police. Nor shall any person have any such sticker or paper in his possession or use otherwise than as authorized by the Superintendent. In any case where the Superintendent has suspended or revoked the designation of any official inspection station designated by him, such station shall surrender possession to the Superintendent or his duly authorized representative all inspection stickers and other forms and papers used in connection with safety inspection of vehicles on or before the effective date of such suspension or revocation. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Code 1950, § 46-322.1; 1956, c. 35; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-325; 1989, c. 727; 1998, c. 299.
Notes of Decisions
Ceon Maurice Fauntleroy v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 746 S.E.2d 65 (Va. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 4× “Second, given Officer Rich’s knowledge that unauthorized possession of an inspection sticker is a Class 1 misdemeanor offense under Code § 46.2-1172, an objectively reasonable officer could certainly infer that appellant fraudulently possessed the sticker in order to avoid…”
Jerry Lee Gibbs v. Commonwealth of Virginia, No. 1115161 (Va. Ct. App. June 6, 2017).
· cites it 6× “The Commonwealth maintains that the trial court correctly found that Vaughters had reasonable articulable suspicion to believe that the appellant was violating Code §§ 46.2-1172 and -1173. Code § 46.2-1172 proscribes using a vehicle safety inspection sticker “otherwise than as…”
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Domanique Terrelle Waller, No. 0487152 (Va. Ct. App. July 28, 2015).
· cites it 2× “As he explained during his testimony at trial, Officer Wade observed the defendant’s inspection sticker when he walked past the unoccupied vehicle on his way to his patrol car.”
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