Chap. 396.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling,
operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the
transportation of persons and/or property for compensation on the public
highways of this State to obtain registration plates or markers, and pre-
scribing and imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and
providing for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and pro-
viding for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof,
approved March 26, 1932, and to further amend said act by adding thereto
a new section to be numbered 8-a. [H B 341]

Approved March 30, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight of an act entitled an act requiring persons, firms, corpora-
tions and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing
motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of per-
sons and/or property for compensation on the public highways of this
State to obtain registration plates or markers, and prescribing and
imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and pro-
viding for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and
providing for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of
violations thereof, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted, and that said act be further
amended by adding thereto a new section to be numbered eight-a,
which amended section and new section shall read as follows:
Section 8. Charges upon carriers are compensatory.—The charges
imposed by this act upon motor vehicle carriers of passengers and
property operating over the public highways of this State are imposed
for the purpose of defraying the cost of administering the laws regu-
lating the operation of such motor vehicle carriers in this State, and
as a just and reasonable contribution to the cost of constructing, re-
constructing, maintaining and policing such highways incident to the
use thereof by such motor vehicle carriers; and, except as otherwise
provided in this act, such charges shall be in lieu of all other taxes
whatsoever laid by the State against such carriers for the use of the
public highways and their operation thereon. Except as hereinafter
provided, the fees and charges imposed by this act shall be set apart
as State highway funds to be expended exclusively for the construc-
tion, reconstruction and maintenance of such highways and the regu-
lation of the traffic thereon.

Section 8-a. Provision for administrative costs of commission.—-
All funds collected hereunder by the commission as road taxes shall be
paid forthwith to the State Treasurer. The commission is authorized
to expend such amount of the sum, so collected as road taxes, as may
be reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and to
draw upon the State Treasurer for the amounts thus expended, pro-
vided, however, that the total sum to be expended by the commission
shall not exceed ten per centum, or six thousand dollars, whichever may
be the smaller, of the total gross amount collected by it in any one tax
year. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to hold in reserve
for the commission said ten per centum, or six thousand dollars, which-
ever may be the smaller, of the road taxes so paid him; the balance of
the road taxes shall be set apart as provided for in section eight of
this act.

The provisions of this act shall apply for the year nineteen hundred
and thirty-four and for each year thereafter, until otherwise provided
by law.

Nothing in this act shall be construed as repealing or affecting any
other sections of chapter three hundred and sixty of the Acts of nine-
teen hundred and thirty-two, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-two, of which chapter this act is amendatory.