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