Chap. 215.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4734 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to obstructing highway crossings and standing vehicles on rail-
road tracks. [S B 132]

Approved March 19, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-seven hundred and thirty-four of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4734. Railroad company, etcetera, obstructing free pas-
sage on street or road, or any one standing a vehicle on track of a
railroad, how punished.—It shall be unlawful for any railroad com-
pany, or any receiver, or trustee operating a railroad, to obstruct fora
longer period than five minutes, the free passage on any street or road,
by standing cars or trains across the same, except a passenger train
while receiving or discharging passengers, but a passway shall be kept
open; nor shall it be lawful to stand any wagon or other vehicle on the
track of any railroad which will hinder or endanger a moving train.
Any such railroad company, receiver, or trustee, or driver of any such
wagon or other vehicle, violating any of the provisions of this section,
shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. No
city, town or county shall adopt any ordinance, order or resolution
in conflict with this section, and all ordinances, orders or resolutions
of any city, town or county heretofore adopted in conflict with this
section, as hereby amended, are hereby repealed to the extent of such
conflict.