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Sight Standards
Tests Are Given
For Driving
The Division of Motor Vehicles reminds Virginia drivers that beginning this January, any person otherwise qualified to abtain a driver’s license or renew :heir license must demonstrate certain visual acuity without or which corrective lenses and a specified field of vision. The age of the driver has no >earing on the vision -equirements, and persons of any ige who meet the requirements to >btain and hold operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses may continue to drive. Licenses will be issued and coded to show if unrestricted or ■etricted, permitting persons to Irive day and night, or day only, depending on which set of vision requirements each driver can pass. ‘Restriction” on the license permits the operation of motor vehicles only during a period beginning one-half hour after sunrise and ending one-half hour before sunset.
The requirement, as set up by the 1968 General Assembly, to obtain an “Unrestricted” license is as follows: 20/40, or better, visual acuity in one or both eyes. 100 degress, of better, horizontal vision in one or both eyes.
The requirement ot obtain a “Restricted” license is as follows: 20/70, or better, visual acuity in one or both eyes. 70 degrees, or better, horizontal vision. If only one eye, 40 degrees, or better, temporal and 30 degrees, or better, nasal horizontal vision.
Additional requirements are specified for operation of Class A and Class B vehicles. Class A covers any vehicle or combination of vehicles having three axles with an actual gross weight in excess of 40,000 pounds. Class B covers passenger-carrying buses equipped
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