A Sea Of Red

- Nonresidents of Virginia may now foxhunt in training preserves, provided they pay $12 for a license. The previous law only gave nonresidents the ability to foxhunt in shooting preserves.

- It’s a Class 3 misdemeanor to “willfully and intentionally impede someone who has obtained a kill permit from killing a bear or deer that is damaging the owner’s property,“ according to the text of the new law.

- Students who skip school and have 10 or more unexcused absences in a row could see their driver’s licenses suspended.

- Dove hunters don’t have to wear blazing orange clothing any longer.

- Doctors’ offices can’t charge for copies of medical bills any more—at least, for those patients who request copies less than three times a year.

- And payday lenders can’t charge more than 36 percent interest for unsecured loans.


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/sta ... nts/17426/

If you have your driver's license, then you're at the age where you can choose to drop out, correct?

LUconn wrote:If you have your driver's license, then you're at the age where you can choose to drop out, correct?

a quick google search says you have to go until you are 18 in Va.

Any word on 'possum kickers?

Cider Jim wrote:Any word on 'possum kickers?

They no longer have to wear orange. Or was that something else?

The kickers or the 'possums themselves?

Cider Jim wrote:The kickers or the 'possums themselves?

Both

How can you suspend someone's driver's license for a non-driving-related action? I don't see how high school attendance has any legal relevancy to having a driver's license. Why don't they tell us that we can't go to the movies if we don't maintain a 'C' average, too?

ALUmnus wrote:How can you suspend someone's driver's license for a non-driving-related action? I don't see how high school attendance has any legal relevancy to having a driver's license. Why don't they tell us that we can't go to the movies if we don't maintain a 'C' average, too?

In North Carolina, if you don't pass a certain percentage of your classes you get your license suspended. Also, if you drop out of school, you can't get your license until your high school class graduates.

Good idea. Because teens who drop out of high school certainly won't need to drive to work.

I'm no lawyer, but I don't get how that could be deemed constitutional if it was ever challenged. Does this apply to just public schools, or does it include private schools and home-schoolers?

I don't think the constitution mentions drivers licenses. It's kind of a thing where the state can do whatever they want with it because it's not a right.