Chap. 337.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of an act entitled ‘An Act
to define motor vehicle carriers and transportation brokers; to provide for the
regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associa-
tions, owning, controlling, operating, or managing motor vehicles used for the
transportation of persons or property for compensation on the public highways
of this State, and of transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation of the
rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of,
and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm, or corporation
operating motor vehicles for compensation over the highways of this State; to
provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations
thereof; and to repeal Chapter 359 of the Acts of 1932, and all statutes and/or
acts, or parts of statutes and/or acts, in conflict with the provisions of this
act,’ approved March 9, 1936, as heretofore amended. [S B 220]

Approved March 29, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General. Assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to define motor vehicle carriers
and transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision,
and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning,
controlling, operating, or managing motor vehicles used for the trans-
portation of persons or property for compensation on the public
highways of this State, and of transportation brokers; to provide for
the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate
and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services
imposed by any person, firm or corporation operating motor vehicles
for compensation over the highways of this State; to provide for the
enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof;
and to repeal chapter three hundred and fifty-nine of the Acts of
nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and all statutes and/or acts, or
parts of statutes and/or acts, in conflict with the provisions of this
act,’’ approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: |

Section 2. This act shall not be construed to include: (a) Motor
vehicles employed solely in transporting school children and teachers,
including Sunday school children and teachers;

(b) Taxicabs, or other motor vehicles performing a bona fide
taxicab service, having a capacity of not more than six passengers
and not operated on a regular route or between fixed termini:

(c) Motor vehicles owned or operated by or on behalf of hotels
while used exclusively for the transportation of hotel patronage be-
tween hotels and local railroad or other common carrier stations;

(d) Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States,
District of Columbia, or any State, or any municipality or any other
political sub-division of this State, including vehicles used exclusively
for handling United States mail;

(e) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in transporting bona
fide employees to and from work, provided, that each such operator
shall first secure from the Commission a permit, and the necessary
warrant for each vehicle so operated, except that the Commission
shall not require the filing of any insurance by any person operating
under this subsection to cover personal injury and property damage
insurance for persons transported;

(f) Motor vehicles controlled and operated by a bona fide co-
operative association as defined in the Federal Agricultural Marketing
Act, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, as
amended or organized or existing under the State Cooperative Market-
ing Act (Virginia, nineteen hundred and twenty-two), as amended,
while used exclusively in the conduct of the business of such associa-
tion;

(h) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in carrying livestock,
poultry, poultry products, buttermilk, fresh milk and cream, meats,
butter and cheese produced on the farm, fish (including shell-fish),
slate, horticultural or agricultural commodities (not including manu-
factured products thereof), and forest products, including lumber and
staves (but not including manufactured products thereof), or in the
transportation of farm supplies being delivered to a farm or farms;

(i) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the distribution of
newspapers;

(j) Motor vehicles while engaged in hauling for the State De-
partment of Highways;

(k) Any motor vehicle with a normal seating capacity of not
more than six adult persons while used not for profit in transporting
persons who as a common undertaking bear or agree to bear all or a
part of the actual costs of such operation.