Chap. 337.—An ACT to promote order and the comfort of passengers on the
conveyances and at the stopping places of carriers of passengers.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all per-
sons who fail, while on any coach or car used for the carriage of pas-
sengers for hire by any company or corporation, or person or persons,
on any railway line, whether the motive power thereof be steam or
electricity, or other motive power, or whether said coach or car be on a
street railway or interurban railway or a trunk line railway, to take and
occupy the seat or seats or other space assigned to them by the con-
ductor, manager or other person in charge of such car or coach. or whose
duty it is to take up tickets or collect fares from passengers therein, or
who fails to obey the direction of any such conductor, manager or other
person, as aforesaid, to change their seats from time to time, as oc-
easions require, pursuant to any lawful rule, regulation or custom in
force on such lines as to assigning separate seats or compartments, or
other space, to white and colored passengers, respectively, being first
advised of the fact of such regulation and requested to conform thereto,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dol-
lars ($25.00) for each offense.

Each conductor or motorman in the employ of such carrier, and upon
the car or coach at the time, shall be a special policeman, and have all the
powers of a conservator of the peace in the enforcement of this act.

No owner or operator of any such line of railway shall be in any way
responsible or liable in damages for the conduct of any conductor o1
motorman, or other person, assisting them in making any arrest made
under the provisions of this act, and any conductor or motorman, or othe1
person, shall not be in any case liable to anyone for any lawful act done
in the enforcement of the arrest required or permitted by this act.