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Local Vehicle Registration Program

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The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) collects the local vehicle registration fee (often referred to as a city sticker or license) in conjunction with state vehicle registration fees for the city of Virginia Beach. When you register a vehicle or renew a registration for a vehicle garaged in Virginia Beach, you will be billed for the state and local registration fees at the same time.

Since the local vehicle registration fee for Virginia Beach is collected at the same time as the DMV vehicle registration fees, customers with a vehicle garaged in Virginia Beach have a number of service outlets available to them to renew their combined state and local vehicle registrations. These include by mail, online at a DMV customer service center or at a DMV Select.

To find out more about what this means to Virginia Beach citizens, visit Virginia Beach Commissioner of the Revenue.

Program Benefits

  • Added convenience for customers
    • Ability to renew local and state registrations at the same time every year
    • More ways to renew: mail, online, phone and DMV customer service centers
  • Improved vehicle registration processing for localities
    • Reduced cost of processing vehicle registrations and fee collections
    • Streamlined registration processing by using the DMV process for both state and local registration processing

Additional Information

Fee Schedule for Virginia Beach 
Exemptions and Discounts for Virginia Beach

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