46.2-1055 - Windshield wipers. - Virginia Statutes

§ 46.2-1055. Windshield wipers.

Every permanent windshield on a motor vehicle shall be equipped with a devicefor cleaning snow, rain, moisture, or other matter from the windshielddirectly in front of the driver. The device shall be so constructed as to becontrolled or operated by the driver of the vehicle. Every such device on aschool bus or a vehicle designed or used to carry passengers for compensationor hire or as a public conveyance shall be of a mechanically or electricallyoperated type. The device or devices on any motor vehicle manufactured orassembled after January 1, 1943, shall clean both the right and left sides ofthe windshield and shall be of a mechanically or electrically operated type.

(Code 1950, § 46-296; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-292; 1989, c. 727.)