Chap. 19.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the Virginia workmen’s
compensation act which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.

. [S. B. 10]
Approved February 13, 1932

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a
law March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as heretofore
amended be further amended and re-enacted to read as follows:
Section 15, This act shall not apply to common carriers whose
motive power is steam and engaged in intrastate trade or commerce
nor shall this act be construed to lessen the liability of such common
carriers or take away or diminish any right that any employee, or in
the case of his death, the personal representative of such employee, of
such common carrier may have, under the act of the general assembly
of Virginia, relating to liability of common carriers whose motive
power is steam and engaged in intrastate commerce for injury to or
death of their employees, and providing for pleading thereof, ap-
proved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or under the
act of the general assembly of Virginia, to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury
to their employees in certain cases, approved March fourteen, nine-
teen hundred and twelve, nor to casual employees, farm and horticul-
tural laborers and domestic servants nor to employees of such persons,
nor to any persons, firm or private corporation, including any public
service corporation, that has regularly in service less than eleven op-
eratives in the same business within this State; unless such employees
and their employers voluntarily elect to be bound by this act.