An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1958 |
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Law Number | 273 |
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CHAPTER 273
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
56-275.1, so as to provide that certain acts of transporting property on
a motor vehicle shall constitute evidence or a presumption of trans-
portation for compensation. 38
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Approved March 11, 1958
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
56-275.1 as follows:
§ 56-275.1. The presence on a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer of
property as to which the owner or operator of such motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer is unable to show evidence of ownership or of having pro-
duced the same, or that he has sold the same in the regular course of his
usual business, shall be prima facie evidence that he is transporting such
property for compensation.
The term “operator” as used in this section shall include the employer
ur ened of the person actually driving any such vehicle, trailer or semi-
railer.
Any person who purchases articles, merchandise, commodities or
things at one point or points and transports them in a motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer to another point or points for sale at the latter point or
points, in the sale price of which is reflected a charge for the transportation
of such articles, merchandise, commodities or things, or who permits any
such vehicle to be so used by another, shall be deemed to be operating such
vehicle for compensation; provided, that this provision shall not apply to
merchants maintaining a bona fide and regular place of business and trans-
porting to and delivering from such place of business by motor vehicle,
trailer or semitrailer articles, merchandise, commodities and things sold
by them, nor to peddlers, commission merchants or brokers holding the
proper authority and having paid the State license tax required for the
business in which they are engaged, nor to persons acting as authorized
commission agents in the distribution of goods, wares or merchandise.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons transporting
forest products, farm produce and products, livestock or farm supplies
in motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers licensed for not more than 18,000
pounds gross weight.