Chap. 240.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 4 of an act
entitled an act concerning public corporations, requiring railroads to post
notice of delayed trains, etc.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of chapter four of an act entitled an act concerning public corpora-
tions, approved January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

87. Whenever any passenger train shall be delayed beyond its sched-
uled time it shall be the duty of the railroad company, immediately upon
Jearning of such delay, to post in some conspicuous place, at or near its
depot, at each of its stations at which it shall have telegraphic or tele-
phonic facilities, and at which said trains are seheduled to stop, at least
thirty minutes before the schedule time of the arrival of such train, s
true statement of the extent of such delay.

Every company failing to comply with the provisions of this sectior
shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense: provided fur.
ther, that any company which wilfully posts a false notice of the delay o:
such train shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars for eact
offense: provided further, that this section shall not be construed so a
to render such company liable for any erroneous statement contained i1
such notice unless wilfully made.