Chap. 59.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3922 and 3923 of the Code
of Virginia. {H B 107}

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions three thousand inine hundred twenty-two and three thousand
nine hundred twenty-three of the Code of Virginia, nineteen hundred
and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3922. Transportation of explosives—No transportation
company ‘shall knowingly transport within the territorial limits of
this Commonwealth, or knowingly transport into such limits for sale,
storage, or use therein, any explosive compounds except in the manner
prescribed by the State corporation commission. It shall be the duty
of the State corporation commission, from time to time, within its
discretion, to make rules and regulations fixing the maximum amounts
of various explosive compounds transported by any common carrier
in any manner; and the methods of packing and marking the same.

Sec. 3923. Penalty for not observing rules in the transportation
of explosives.—Any transportation company that shall knowingly
transport any explosive contrary to the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the State corporation commission; or any conductor of
any train, or captain of a steamboat, or person in charge of any public
vehicle engaged in transporting passengers or freight, who shall
knowingly fail to observe said rules and regulations in the trans-
portation of explosives, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
nor more than five hundred.

Z. An emergency existing because of the proposed revision of
‘rules and regulations for the transportation of explosives now pend-
ing, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall be
in force from its passage.