Chap. 243.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of the game, inland fish
and dog Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry
and treatment of rabies. [S B 225]

Approved March 23, 193Z

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventy-four of the game, inland fish and dog Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 74. Compensation for livestock and poultry; treatment
of rabies—Any person taxed by the State who shall have any live-
stock or poultry killed or injured by any dog shall be entitled to receive
compensation therefor at the assessed value of such livestock and fair
value of unassessed lambs or poultry, and in addition thereto may
recover from the owner or custodian of such dog, in an appropriate
action at law, the difference between the assessed value and the full
value of such livestock or poultry; but in no case shall any such person
receive or recover for any livestock or poultry so killed more than the
then fair value thereof regardless of what the assessed value may be.
Nothing herein shall be construed as limiting the common law liability
of an owner of a dog for damages committed by it. Claimants for
damages shall furnish evidence under oath of quantity and value to
the board of supervisors of the county or council or other governing
body of any city within ninety days after sustaining such damage.
Any person bitten by a rabid dog shall be paid the costs of necessary
treatment, not to exceed one hundred dollars; provided that any county
or city having a health officer may require him to treat said case of
rabies, and no person shall be entitled to recover the cost of necessary
treatment herein provided unless he or she shall first apply to such
officer for treatment and such officer refuses or fails to treat the case.

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Chap. 244—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3716 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to the power and authority of the State
corporation commission. [S B 217]

Approved March 23, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven hundred and sixteen of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3716. The commission shall have power and authority to
require, by its rules, regulations, and requirements, all corporations
chartered under the laws of this State, and all foreign corporations
doing business in this State, and all persons, partnerships and as-
sociations exercising and performing the functions of public service
corporations as defined in section thirty-eight hundred and eighty-one
of the Code of Virginia, to perform and discharge any public duty or
requirement imposed upon such corporations, persons, partnerships and
associations by the constitution, or by law, and may require all such
corporations, persons, partnerships and associations to furnish such
reports to the commission as may be provided by the Constitution, or
by law, and the commission may enforce against any such corporation,
person, partnership and association, by its judgments and processes,
any fine or other penalty imposed by law for the failure of any such
corporation, person, partnership and association to perform any public
duty required of it or them, or to comply with any requirements of law,
or any lawful regulation of the commission in reference to the same,
and whenever no fine or other penalty is specifically imposed by statute
for failure on the part of such corporation, person, partnership and
association to perform any public duty required of it or them, or to
comply with any requirement of law or any lawful rule or regulation
of the commission, the commission may impose a fine of not exceeding
five hundred dollars upon such corporation, person, partnership and
association to be collected by its processes as in other cases. The com-
mission may require the establishment by transportation companies of
separate waiting-rooms at all stations, wharves, or landings for the
white and colored races.

The commission shall have power and authority in all cases within
its jurisdiction, and in the exercise of its sound discretion, to give
judgment for costs, either in addition to any fine or penalty which may
be imposed, or when, upon conviction, no fine or penalty is imposed,
whenever, according to the general principles of law applicable in
proceedings before the regular judicial tribunals of the State, judgment
for costs properly may be added to any fine or penalty imposed, or
given without imposition of fine or penalty.

The commission shall have power and authority in any matter,
claim, or charge within its jurisdiction, by this section or by any other
provision of law, heretofore or hereafter enacted, to compromise or
settle any matter, claim or charge, either by or in a formal proceed-
ing, or informally, whether any proceeding shall have been instituted
or not, and the commission shall have the power and authority to
dismiss any proceeding which is pending and in which a compromise or
settlement is effected without making a formal record of such com-
promise or settlement, in its sound judicial discretion.

The power and authority of the commission to make compromises
and settlements hereby conferred shall extend to its jurisdiction to
impose fines and penalties under this section of the Code, as from time
to time heretofore or hereafter amended, or under any other provision
of law heretofore or which may be hereafter enacted.

Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to authorize
or empower the commission to effect any compromise or settlement in-
volving the payment of money into the treasury without some record
or memorandum of such compromise or settlement in the clerk’s office
of the commission.

All compromises and settlements which have been effected formally
or informally by the State corporation commission within the scope of
its jurisdiction shall be, and hereby are, made as fully and completely
valid, effective and binding as if same had been made hereafter and
in accordance with provisions of this amendment of this section of the
Code and regardless of whether such power and authority to make
settlements and compromises may have resided in the State corporation
commission prior to the enactment of this amendment thereto, and all
such compromises and settlements heretofore made are hereby ratified
and confirmed.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.