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Sec. 18-105. Windshield wipers.[243]

Every permanent windshield on a motor vehicle shall be
equipped with a device for cleaning snow, rain, moisture or
other matter from the windshield directly in front of the
operator. The device shall be so constructed as to be controlled
or operated by the operator of the vehicle; provided,
that every such device on a vehicle designed or used to carry
passengers for compensation or hire or as a public conveyance


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to transport school children or others shall be of a mechanically
or electrically operated type. The device or devices on
any motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after January
1, 1943, shall clean both the right and left sides of the windshield
and shall be of a mechanically or electrically operated
type. (Code 1959, § 18-105.)

 
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For similar state law, see Code of Va., § 46.1-292.