CHAPTER 285

An Act to amend and reenact § 56-274, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to motor vehicles exempt from regulations. CH j
829

Approved March 12, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 56-274, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 56-274. Vehicles excluded from operation of chapter.—This chap-
ter shall not be construed to include:

(1) Motor vehicles employed solely in transporting school children
and teachers;

(2) Taxicabs, or other motor vehicles performing bona fide taxicab
service, having a seating capacity of not more than six passengers, while
operating in a city, town or county which has or adopts an ordinance
regulating and controlling taxicabs and other vehicles performing a bona
fide taxicab service, and not operating on a regular route or between fixed
termini; provided, however, that each operator of a motor vehicle per-
forming a bona fide taxicab service shall file insurance as required under
§ 56-299 unless evidence can be shown the Commission that the operator
is a self-insurer under an ordinance of the city or an ordinance of the
county where the home office of the operator is located; and failure to keep
insurance in force shall subject the operator to cancellation of any au-
thority under this chapter;

(3) Motor vehicles owned or operated by or on behalf of hotels while
used exclusively for the transportation of hotel patronage between hotels
and local railroad or other common carrier stations;

(4) Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States, the
District of Columbia, or any state, or any municipality or any other
political subdivision of this State, including vehicles used exclusively for
handling United States mail;

(5) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in transporting only bona
fide employees directly to and from the factory, plant or other place of
like nature where they are all employed and accustomed to work, provided
that the operator of such vehicle shall first secure from the Commission
a permit, and the necessary warrant for each vehicle so operated, neither
of which permit nor warrant shall be issued by the Commission unless the
applicant shall furnish the Commission at the time the application is made,
with a statement in writing signed by the applicant setting forth the
name and location of the factory, plant or other place of like nature to
and from which applicant proposes to operate and that such applicant
will transport only bona fide employees of such factory, plant or like place
to and from work, which permit shall be subject to revocation or sus-
pension and the holder thereof subject to the imposition of penalties by
the Commission for any of the causes and in the manner and to the extent
provided for by § 56-297; provided that any permit issued by the Com-
mission under the provisions of this section prior to July first, nineteen
hundred fifty, shall, unless suspended or revoked as herein provided, con-
tinue to be valid; but any such permit or permit holder shall in all other
respects be subject to the provisions of this section. But the Commission
shall not require the filing of any insurance by any person operating under
this subsection to cover personal injury and property damage insurance for
persons transported;

(6) Motor vehicles controlled and operated by a bona fide cooperative
association as defined in the Federal Agricultural Marketing Act approved
June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, as amended, or organ-
ized or existing under chapter 15 of Title 18 of this Code, while used
exclusively in the conduct of the business of such association;

(7) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in carrying livestock,
poultry, poultry products, buttermilk, fresh milk and cream, meats, butter
and cheese produced on the farm, fish (including shellfish), slate, horti-
cultural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products
thereof), and forest products, including lumber and staves (but not in-
cluding manufactured products thereof), or in the transportation of farm
supplies being delivered to a farm or farms;

(8) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the distribution of
newspapers;

(9) Motor vehicles while engaged in hauling for the State Depart-
ment of Highways;

(10) * Any motor vehicle while transporting not more than five
passengers in addition to the driver, if the driver and the passengers are
engaged in a share-the-ride undertaking and if they share not more than
the expenses of operation of the vehicle;

(11) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the transportation of
passengers or property within the corporate limits of incorporated cities
or towns.