---
type: "Bill"
title: "Display or parking of used motor vehicles for sale; penalty."
description: "Clarifies that the prohibition on the display or parking, or permitting the display or parking, of five or more used motor vehicles within any 12-month period on real property to sell or advertise the sale of used motor vehicles applies per property and provides that a property owner or lessee in violation of such prohibition is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. The bill also requires the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board to create a form to place on a vehicle that is in violation of the law. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 532"
citation: "Virginia SB 532 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2f2cc80-d48d-4175-b1ac-6654ed45b140"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB532"
source_hash: "6a91fc58ab867646a8af1644942cb6cdd5ded87653cd43fdb0e3ded9fd18f377"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 532 (2018) — Display or parking of used motor vehicles for sale; penalty.

Clarifies that the prohibition on the display or parking, or permitting the display or parking, of five or more used motor vehicles within any 12-month period on real property to sell or advertise the sale of used motor vehicles applies per property and provides that a property owner or lessee in violation of such prohibition is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. The bill also requires the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board to create a form to place on a vehicle that is in violation of the law. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB532ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB532ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18105877D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB532S1)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103539D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB532)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate — **30–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **82–18** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **9–4** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **20–2** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **35–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)
- J. Chapman Petersen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103539D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 18105877D-S1
- **2018-01-29** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB532S1
- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House (82-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2f2cc80-d48d-4175-b1ac-6654ed45b140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).