Chap. 70.—An ACT to confer upon the State corporation commission jurisdiction
and to impose upon it the duty to prescribe and enforce rates of pilotage and
other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage and to prem the
procedure. [H B 210]

Approved February 28, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on and
after the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the
State corporation commission shall prescribe and enforce the rates of
pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage,
but before the said commission shall fix or prescribe any such rates or
charges it shall first give ten days’ notice of the time and place of meet-
ing, to the individual pilot, company or association and all owners, char-
terers, operators or agents of vessels who are directly affected by such
rates or charges, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation,
in each of the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News. For
the purpose of determining the fair basis of such rates and charges the
commission shall have access to the books and records of the individual
pilots and any association of pilots for the two years next preceding,
whose rates are to be fixed by them, and shall have the same powers in
all respects as is given by law in matters affecting transportation and
transmission companies.

2. When such rates and charges shall have been fixed and pre-
scribed by the said commission, they shall be the legal rates and charges
for pilotage in Virginia, and shall be enforced as provided by law, and
the State corporation commission shall have the power to change or
alter such rates or charges, after the notice and hearing as hereinbefore
provided in this act, except that such rates or charges shall not be al-
tered more than once in two years.

3. From any action of the State corporation commission ander this
section, an appeal may be taken by the individual pilots, company or
association affected, or by any other person, firm, company or corpo-
ration feeling himself or itself aggrieved by such action, in the manner
prescribed in section one hundred and fifty-six of the Constitution of
nineteen hundred and two for appeals from actions of the commission
prescribing rates, charges or classifications of traffic affecting trans-
portation and transmission companies.

4. All acts or parts of acts fixing rates in conflict with such rates
and charges so fixed are hereby repealed, insofar as they are in conflict
therewith.