46.2-110 - Right to inspect vehicles in garages.
§ 46.2-110. Right to inspect vehicles in garages.
Any law-enforcement officer or Department officer or employee who is inuniform or exhibits a badge or other sign of authority shall have the rightto inspect any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer in any public garage orrepair shop for the purpose of locating stolen motor vehicles, trailers, andsemitrailers and for investigating the title and registration of motorvehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. For this purpose the owner of anygarage or repair shop shall permit any law-enforcement officer or Departmentofficer or employee freely to make investigation as authorized in thissection.
(Code 1950, § 46-17; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-9; 1989, c. 727.)