Chap. 575.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of chapter 161 of the
acts of assembly for 1923, commonly known as the motor vehicle carrier act,
as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924. [H B 182)

Approved March 31, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nine of chapter one hundred and sixty-one of the acts of assembly for
nineteen hundred and twenty-three, commonly known as the motor
vehicle carrier act, as amended by an act approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 9. Neither this act nor any provision thereof, shall apply
or be construed to apply to interstate or foreign commerce, except
insofar as the same may be permitted under the provisions of the
Constitution of the United States and the acts of congress, nor to
farmers or dairymen when hauling dairy and farm products along
with similar products of their own, so long as the loads therein con-
tain as much as fifty per centum of the motor vehicle carrier’s own
product, nor to any person, firm or corporation operating any bus line
for the transportation of passengers or property wholly in any city
or town of this State over the streets maintained by such city or town,
nor to any person, firm or corporation operating taxicabs, equipped
with taximeters whose business originates wholly within the corporate
limits of any city or town in this State, and who only occasionally
operate beyond said limits; nor shall anything in this act be construed
as prohibiting agricultural or farmers’ organizations, the members of
which are engaged in agricultural pursuits, from contracting with any
member or members thereof for the transportation of farm products
including milk over any of the routes used by a motor vehicle carrier,
or as preventing the person or persons with whom such contracts are
made from so transporting such products, including milk, or dairy
products.