Chap. 227.—An ACT to provide for the regulation of the rates and charges of
taxicabs in certain counties, and to provide certain penalties for violation.

[H 379]
Approved March 15, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. The governing body of any county having a density
of population in excess of one thousand a square mile according to the
latest United States census, and the governing body of any county which
has a population of more than thirty-five thousand inhabitants and
which adjoins two cities having populations of not less than fifty thousand
inhabitants each, according to the latest United States census, may regu-
late the rates and charges of any motor vehicle used as a taxicab and
operated on any highway, the streets, roads, lanes, or alleys in the county,
and may prescribe such reasonable regulations as to filing of schedules
of rates and charges as to it appear proper.

Section 2. Every owner or operator of a motor vehicle used as a
taxicab on any highways, the streets, roads, lanes or alleys in the county
who willfully violates any of the provisions of this act or regulation of
the governing body made pursuant to this act shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined not more than one hun-
dred dollars for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars
for each subsequent offense.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.