46.2-494 - Safe driving point credit.
§ 46.2-494. Safe driving point credit.
Every resident or nonresident person holding a valid Virginia driver'slicense whose driving record does not contain any suspension, revocation,conviction, or finding of not innocent in the case of a juvenile, of atraffic violation, during any calendar year shall be awarded one safe drivingpoint. One safe driving point shall be awarded for each calendar year ofsafe driving, but no person shall be permitted to accumulate more than fivesafe driving points. The Commissioner shall apply these points to offset anequivalent number of demerit points, if any, to the chronologically earliestoffense conviction, or finding of not innocent in the case of a juvenile, forwhich demerit points have been assigned and are valid. If subsequent toawarding a safe driving point to any person, the Department receives aconviction, or finding of not innocent in the case of a juvenile, for anoffense which occurred during the period for which a safe driving point wasawarded for and which requires the Department to assess demerit points, thesafe driving point shall be invalidated.
(1974, c. 453, § 46.1-514.8; 1978, c. 44; 1989, c. 727.)