CHAPTER 705

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-155, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to license fees for leased passenger carrying vehicles.

{H 768)
Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46-155, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46-155. In addition to the fees imposed under § 46-154, for the
operation of each motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer kept or used for
rent or for hire under a * lease without chauffeur, for the transportation
of passengers *, there shall be paid to the Commissioner by the owner of
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the vehicle the sum of ten cents per hundred pounds of weight or major
fraction thereof; provided that on taxicabs and other vehicles kept for
rent or hire operated with chauffeurs for the transportation of passengers
which operate or should operate under permits issued by the Corporation
Commission as provided by law, there shall be paid to the Commissioner
the sum of thirty cents per hundred pounds of weight or major fraction
thereof. Provided further that the provisions of this section shall not
apply to any carrier operating under a certificate of public convenience
and necessity issued by the State Corporation Commission, or under a
local franchise granted by any city or town, nor to any carrier which is
subject to and pays to the State the road tax calculated on gross receipts
provided under § 58-638. ;