---
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: "HB 1413"
citation: "Virginia HB 1413 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon C. Helsel, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c094de5-6913-4bb4-9605-d72e348992f1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1413"
source_hash: "a14e88b766c1d040504a463be08c441391ed727e986298cac24b7c7205ab0a11"
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 HB 1413 (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. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1413ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1413ER)
2. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18104958D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1413)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18104958D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1413E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **33–7** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **9–2** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 18104958D `introduction`
- **2018-01-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House as amended HB1413E
- **2018-02-02** Printed as engrossed 18104958D-E
- **2018-02-05** Passed by for the day
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** 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 122 (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/8c094de5-6913-4bb4-9605-d72e348992f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).