Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 278 of assembly, anproved
March 16, 1910, and entitled an act to require railroads to provide suit-
able caboose car on freight trains, and imposing a penalty for failure
so to do. (S. B. 116.)

Approved March 13, 1914.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Virginia,
That an act entitled an act to require railroads to provide suitable
caboose cars on freight trains and to impose a penalty for failure
so to do, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any railroad company,
corporation, firm, individual, receiver or trustee, operating a stand-
ard gauge railroad as a common carrier in the State of Virginia, to
run or permit to be run over its tracks, except in yard limits and
in transfer service a train of one or more cars, other than a pas-
senger train, without having attached thereto a caboose car, except
in cases of emergency occurring on the road which will not permit
a compliance of this act. and provided further, that the provisions
of this act shall not apply to light engines.
im length, exclusive of platforms at each end, which shall not be
less than two feet in width and shall be constructed with a door in
each end and with six windows in the body of the car, and shall
be equipped with two four wheel trucks and an emergency brake
valve in the bodv of the car within reach of the cupola, and shall
have a cupola with eight windows, and shall be of a constructive
strength, of a sixty thousand pound capacity freight car, except
where pusher engines are used, when it shall be of a resistance
strength equal to that of a hundred thousand pound capacity freight
car.

Sec. 3. Whenever anv caboose car now in use upon any such
railroad in Virginia shall after this act goes into effect be brought
into the shops of any such railroad for general repairs, it shall be
unlawful to again put the same into the service of such railroad,
within this State unless it be equipped as provided in section two
of this act.

Sec. 4. Such railroad comnanv. corporation, firm, individual
and receiver or trustee, operating standard gauge railroad in the
State of Virginia as a common carrier, shall each vear from and
after the first dav of July. nineteen hundred and fourteen, equip
for service. in accordance with the provisions of this act at least
ten ner cent. of the number of caboose cars in use on its railroad
in this State on the said first dav of July. nineteen hundred and
fourteen. that are not so enninned. but the State corporation com-
mission is herehv authorized to grant to anv such railroad company,
corporation, firm, individual, receiver or trustee, operating a stand-
ard gauge railroad as a common carrier in the State of Virginia,
upon a full hearing and for good cause shown, a reasonable exten-
sion of time within which to comply with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 5. Any such railroad company, corporation, firm, indi-
vidual, receiver or trustee operating a standard gauge railroad in
the State of Virginia as a common carrier violating any of the
provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) for
each offense.

Sec. 6. Provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply
to any such railroad company, corporation, firm, individual, re-
ceiver or trustee operating a standard gauge railroad in the State
of Virginia, as a common carrier, which railroad may now or here-
after have neither of its terminals in this State; nor to any standard
gauge railroad operated as a common carrier which is not more than
thirty miles in length.

Sec. 7. Prosecutions under this act shall be made by the Com-
monwealth attorney in any court of competent jurisdiction in any
county or municipal corporation, in or through which such railroad
may have run the train thus improperly equipped.

Sec. 8. An emergency for the comfort and convenience of train
its passage.