Chap. 46.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of chapter 236, of the
Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the liability of intrastate common
carriers by railroads operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.

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Approved February 25, 1932

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

Section 5791. That every common carrier by railroad engaged in
intrastate commerce, whose motive power is steam, shall be liable in
damages to any of its employees suffering injury while employed by
such carrier, except when such employee is injured while engaged in in-
terstate commerce, and except when such employees are injured in the
course of their regular employment, which regular employment does
not expose such employees to the hazards incident to the maintenance,
use and operation of such railroads, and in case of his death, to his per-
sonal representative, for such injury or death, resulting in whole or in
part from the wrongful act or neglect of any of its officers, agents,
servants, or employees of such carriers, or by reason of any defect, or
insufficiency due to its neglect in its cars, engines, appliances, machin-
ery, track, road-bed, works, boats, wharves or other equipment. If
the action be for the death of an employee, sections fifty-seven hun-
dred and eighty-seven, fifty-seven hundred and eighty-eight, fifty-
seven hundred and eighty-nine, and fifty-seven hundred and ninety,
shall apply thereto so far as applicable and when not in conflict here-
with. No action shall be maintained under this section unless it be
commenced within two years from the date the cause of action
accrued.