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Virginia Beach DUI Attorney – Chesapeake DUI Lawyer : § 18.2-271. Forfeiture of driver's license for driving while intoxicated. | Swango Law P.C.
C. If a person (i) is tried on a process alleging a third or subsequent offense of violating § 18.2-266 or subsection A of § 46.2-341.24, or any substantially similar local ordinance, or law of any other jurisdiction, within ten years of two other offenses for which the person was convicted, or found not innocent in the case of a juvenile, under § 18.2-266 or subsection A of § 46.2-341.24 or any valid local ordinance or any law of any other jurisdiction substantially similar to § 18.2-266 or subsection A of § 46.2-341.24 and (ii) is convicted thereof, such conviction shall of itself operate to deprive the person so convicted of the privilege to drive or operate any motor vehicle, engine or train in the Commonwealth and such person shall not be eligible for participation in a program pursuant to § 18.2-271.1 and shall, upon such conviction, have his license revoked as provided in subsection B of § 46.2-391. The court trying such case shall order the surrender of the person’s driver’s license, to be disposed of in accordance with § 46.2-398, and shall notify such person that his license has been revoked indefinitely and that the penalty for violating that revocation is as set out in § 46.2-391.
THE LOSS OF THE RIGHT TO OPERATE A VEHICLE IS NO PART OF THE JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION, or the punishment fixed by the court or jury, and no action or order of the court or other officer is required to put it into effect. It is not dependent upon evidence necessary to convict. Evidence of conviction alone is essential. Commonwealth v. Ellett, 174 Va. 403, 4 S.E.2d 762 (1939).
NO EQUAL PROTECTION VIOLATION. –Prohibition against granting defendant, who was found guilty of driving while his blood alcohol concentration was in excess of .10, a restricted driving permit to operate a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in the Virginia Commercial Driver’s License Act, during his employment hours did not deny him equal protection of the laws although other persons may be permitted to drive noncommercial motor vehicles during the hours of such person’s employment if the operation of a motor vehicle is a necessary incident of such employment, even if defendant was similarly situated to a person who drives as a part of his or her employment but does not hold a commercial driver’s license. Lockett v. Commonwealth, 17 Va. App. 488, 438 S.E.2d 497 (1993).

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