An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1938 |
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Law Number | 136 |
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Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2071 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to penalties for crossing or attempt-
ing to cross any bridge or ferry without paying toll and for the operator
of a bridge or ferry, demanding more than the lawful toll. [S B 64]
Approved March 12, 1938
I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section twenty hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
Section 2071. Toll may be required in advance; illegal tolls.—
The proprietor of any ferry or bridge may require the lawful ferriage
or toll to be paid previous to a passage over his ferry or bridge; and
1f any person shall forcibly or fraudulently pass or attempt to pass
by a toll house of any toll bridge whether located immediately on such
bridge or near thereto, or over any ferry or bridge, without paying the
ferriage or toll, or refuse to pay the same after having passed, he shall
be liable to the proprietor for the ferriage or toll which he has so
refused to pay; and moreover, every such offense shall be a misde-
meanor, for which, upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined not less
than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars. The failure of
such person to pay said ferriage or toll shall be a prima facie pre-
sumption of such forcible or fraudulent passage.
And it shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully go upon, or to
drive any vehicle upon, any toll bridge, and to turn around upon such
bridge and go off with intent to evade payment of toll. For each such
offense such person, in addition to being liable for toll as if he had
crossed such bridge, shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
If there be demanded, wilfully and knowingly, at any such ferry
or bridge more than is lawful, the proprietor thereof shall forfeit
to the party aggrieved so much as is illegally demanded, and a further
sum of not less than two or more than fifteen dollars.