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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, <br />VIRGINIA, 1973, BY A~-ENDING SECTIONS 23-89 (a) AND (b) AND <br />23-1 (c) THEREOF, PERTAINING TO MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC. <br /> <br /> BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, <br />Virginia: <br /> <br /> 1. That Section 23-89 (a) <br />Code of the City of Portsmouth, <br />reordained to read as follows: <br /> <br />and (b) of <br />Virginia, 1 <br /> <br />Chapter 23 of the <br />973,'be amended and <br /> <br />Section 23-89. Driving while license, pen <br /> has been suspended or revo] <br /> <br /> (a) Except as otherwise provided in : <br />Code and Section 46.1-387.8 of the Code of <br />resident or nonresident whose driver's lice <br />permit or privilege to drive a motor vehicl <br /> <br />tit or privilege <br />:ed. <br /> <br />~ection 23-99 of this <br />Virginia, no person, <br />~nse or instruction <br />.e has been suspended <br /> <br />or revoked or who has been directed not to drive by any court <br />or by the commissioner or by operation of Raw pursuant ~o the <br />provisions of this Chapter, Title~46.1 of ~he Code of Virginia, <br />Section 18.2-271 of the Code of Virginia or any similar law <br />or regulation or who has been forbidden as prescribed by law <br />by the commissioner, the state corporation commission, the <br />state highway commissioner, any court, or ~he superintendent <br />of state police, to operate a motor vehicle in this Commonwealth <br />shall thereafter drive any motor vehicle or any self-propelled <br />machinery or equipment on any highway in this City unless <br />and until the period of such suspension or revocation shall <br />have terminated. <br /> <br /> (b) Any person violating this sectio: <br />offense be confined in jail not less than <br />that six (6) months and may in addition be <br />one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more tha: <br />($200.00); and for the second or any subse. <br />confined in jail not less than two (~2) mon <br />one year and may in addition be fined not <br />dollars ($200.00) nor more than one thousa <br />The court shall not suspend the entire jai <br />case but may, in its discretion, suspend a <br />However, thi~' provision, in the discretion <br />not apply if the operation of the motor ve <br />emergency involving danger to the health o <br />or to property; and the court may, in its <br />that the jail sentence shall be served at <br />as the court may direct after considering <br />of the <br /> <br /> shall, for the first <br />:en ~10) days nor more <br /> fined not less than <br /> two hundred dollars <br />tuent offense be <br />~hs nor more than <br />Less than two hundred <br />sd dollars ($1,000.00). <br />L sentence in any <br />nortion thereof.-- <br />of the court, shall <br />licle was due to an <br />c life of any person <br />~iscretion, prescribe <br />3uch time or times <br />~he circumstances <br /> <br />oerson convicted of violating this section. <br /> <br /> <br />