Chap. 443.——An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new
section numbered 3857-a, authorizing railroad, electric railway and steam-
boat companies to transport persons and/or property by use of aircraft or
of motor vehicles. [S B 158]

Approved April 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section, num-
bered thirty-eight hundred and fifty-seven-a, which section shall read
as follows:

Section 3857-a. Any railroad, electric railway or steamboat cor-
poration operating a railroad, electric railway or steamboat line in
this State may acquire, own and operate motor vehicles for the pur-
pose of transporting persons and/or property over the public highways
as a common carrier by motor vehicle as that term is defined by an act
to define motor vehicle carriers which was approved March ninth,
nineteen hundred and thirty-six, subject to the laws of Virginia gov-
erning the operations and regulation of common carriers by motor
vehicle, now in force or hereafter enacted, and all lawful regulations
of the State Corporation Commission made pursuant thereto and
applying to other motor vehicles or other common carriers by motor
vehicle, including the laws requiring the payment of registration and
license fees and other taxes by common carriers by motor vehicle,
when lawfully authorized so to do by that department of the govern-
ment ot Virginia having power to authorize the operations of other
common carriers by motor vehicle, in accordance with the provisions
of such laws and regulations, but so long as the gross transportation
receipts from operations as a common carrier by motor vehicle are
subject to a road tax, such gross transportation receipts shall not be
included in the gross transportation receipts of any such railroad or
steamboat corporation upon which its annual State franchise tax is
calculated and may also acquire, own and operate equipment for, and
engage in aerial transportation, subject to the provisions of any law
regulating aerial transportation.