CODE OF VIRGINIA

FORKLIFT TRUCKS (§ 46.2-678)

A. No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, license
plates, or decals for or pay a registration fee for any forklift truck provided
it is:

   1.  Operated by a person holding a valid Virginia driver’s license;

   2.  Operated along or across highways only in traveling from one plant,
   factory, or job site to another by the most direct route;

   3.  Not carrying or transporting any object or person, other than the driver;

   4.  Displaying a slow-moving vehicle emblem in conformity with § 46.2-1081;

   5.  In compliance with requirements of the federal Occupational Safety and
   Health Administration;

   6.  Not operated on or along any limited access highway; and

   7.  Not operated for a distance of more than ten miles.

B. For the purposes of this section, “forklift truck” means a
self-propelled machine used for hoisting and transporting heavy objects by means
of steel fingers inserted under the load.

HISTORY: 1973, c. 194, § 46.1-45.2; 1980, c. 37; 1986, c. 220; 1987, cc. 151,
342, 388; 1989, c. 727; 2016, c. 142.