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 | 1902/1904 |
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Law Number | 534 |
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Chap. 534.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1362, 1367, 1369, 1375, 1378,
1379, 1380, and 1390 of chapter 62 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved December 31, 1903.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
thirteen hundred and sixty-two, thirteen hundred and sixty-seven, thir-
teen hundred and sixty-nine, thirteen hundred and seventy-five, thirteen
hundred and seventy-eight, thirteen hundred and seventy-nine, thirteen
hundred and eighty, and thirteen hundred and ninety of chapter sixty-
ig of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows:
§ 1362. Bond required of proprietor—When any obligor in a bond
given by a proprietor of any such ferry shall die, or the ownership of the
ferry be changed, the circuit court of the county from which such ferry
is may require a new bond to be given by the proprietor for the time being,
or by some person for him, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, pay-
able to the county, with one or more sufficient sureties, with condition
that his boats or packets and other furniture shall be kept in such order
and so navigated as in all things to conduce to the comfort and safety
of passengers.
§ 1367. Special leave to ferry from Accomac or Northampton to Nor-
folk.—The circuit court of either of the said counties of Accomac or
Northampton may, when: it sees fit, grant leave to any person to trans-
port persons or things from a harbor or creek in such county to the city
of Norfolk, in a vessel of twenty-five tons burden, subject to all the pre-
ceding provisions of this chapter, except such as the court may dispense
with. But before such leave is granted the proprietor of each ferry es-
tablished from the county shall first be summoned to show cause against
it.
$1369. Court may lease out ferries across Elizabeth river; how the
money applied.—The circuit court of Norfolk county may lease out the
ferries across Elizabeth river and the branches thereof, or may cause the
same to be kept by an agent appointed by the court. Such agent or
lessee shall, if required by the court, give bond to the county, with one or
more sureties, i in such eum and with such condition as the court may pre-
scribe. The money received from the ferries mentioned in this section
shall be applied toward lessening the county levy. But nothing in this
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section shall interfere with the rights of the city of Norfolk in the act
entitled “an act to authorize a ferry from the city of Norfolk to the cor-
poration wharf in the town of Portsmouth,” passed the twenty-second
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. This section is quali-
fied by the three following sections,
§ 1375. Application for new ferry——A person desiring to establish a
ferry across any water course, whether it be a stream bounding the State
or not, who owns, or has contracted for the use of, land at the point at
which he wishes to establish the same, may, after publishing notice of his
intention at the front door of the courthouse, on the first day of each of
the two next preceding terms, apply to the circuit court of the county, or
of one of the counties, in which he desires to establish such ferry, for
leave to establish the same.
§ 1378. Procedings, if water course divides two counties.—If, hovw-
ever, the said: water course be such division line, and the court be of opin-
ion that the application ought to be granted, it shall certify to the cir-
cuit court of the other county such opinion, with the number of hands
and the number and kind of boats, and the rates of ferriage which it
deems proper at the same. The applicant may then apply to the cir-
cuit court of such other county, after notice therein, as prescribed by
section thirteen hundred and: seventy-five, and said court, upon the re
port made to the other court, and any other proper evidence, may reject
the application, or grant the same upon the terms prescribed by the
other court.
§ 1379. How rates of ferriage increased or reduced.—An order for in-
creasing the rates at any ferry may be made on the application of the
proprietor thereof, after notice of the intended application shall have
been published at the front door of the courthouse, on the first day of
each of the two next preceding terms. And an order for reducing the
rates at any ferry may be made after the proprietor thereof shall, under
an order entered at one term, have been summoned to appear at the next
term to show why such reduction should not be made. Such order, either
for the increasing or reducing, may be made by the circuit court of the
county in which the ferry is situated. Where a ferry is over a water
course which is the division line between two counties, the order shall not
take effect until it be made by the circuit court of each of the two coun-
ties.
§ 1380. Forfeiture of ferry—If the proprietor of any ferry fail in
any respect to comply with any section of this chapter, the circuit court
of any county from which such ferry is established may adjudge and
declare all his privileges in respect to such ferry at an end, after first
causing the said proprietor to be summoned to show cause against such
order.
§ 1390. How right to demand tolls ascertained, and rates fixed or
changed.—No tolls shall be received for passing any such bridge until it
shall appear to the circuit court of the county wherein the same is, that
it is completed according to the act authorizing it. The court shall as-
certain whether it is or is not so completed by appointing three disinter-
ested freeholders to view it. If they report in writing that it is so com-
pleted, and their report be confirmed by the court, the person authorized
to erect it, his heirs or assigns, may thenceforth demand and receive, on
persons and things passing the same, tolls at the rates fixed by such act,
or if none be so fixed, then at such rates as may, from time to time, be.
fixed by the State corporation commission or by law. Though rates or
toll be specified in such act, they may, from time to time, be changed by
law, unless in the said act otherwise expressly provided.
2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.