Chap. 42.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3801 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to the loading, unloading, running and transportation of
railroad trains on Sunday.

Became a law without the signature of the governor February 25, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-eight hundred and one of the Code of Virginia relating to the load-
ing, unloading, running and transportation of railroad trains on Sun-
day be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

&3801. No railroad company, receiver, or trustee, controlling or oper-
ating a railroad, shall, by any agent or employee, load, unload, run or
transport upon such road on a Sunday, any car, train of cars or loco-
motive, nor permit the same to be done by any such agent or employee,
except where such cars, trains or locomotives are used exclusively for the
relief of wrecked train or trains so disabled as to obstruct the main track
of the railroad; or for the transportation of the United States mail; or
for the transportation of passengers and their baggage; or where such
cars, trains or locomotives constitute interstate freight trains exclu-
sively, which trains may be run through the State of Virginia without
stopping at local stations for interchange of freight; or for the trans-
portation of live stock; or for the transportation of articles of such per-
ishable nature as would necessarily impair in value by one day’s delay in
their passage: provided, however, that if it should be necessary to trans-
port live stock or perishable articles on a Sunday to an extent not suffi-
cient to make a whole train load, such train load may be made up with
cars loaded with ordinary freight; and provided, however, that the State
corporation commission may, at such times necessity may require, either
to meet an emergency or to save life or property, suspend the restriction
of this act and authorize the running, loading or unloading on Sunday of
freight trains on any railroad, and of any car or locomotive.

2. That the State corporation commission may, upon petition duly
verified of any railroad company, either by general rule or special order,
or both, authorize the running, loading or unloading on Sunday of freight
trains on such railroad, and of any car or locomotive, for any of the causes
in the proviso of the first section mentioned.

3. Any railroad company taking advantage of any of the provisions
of this act shall thereby give up and surrender any exemption from State,
county, city or district taxation conferred by the charter of said com-
pany.