Chap. 162.—An ACT to amend, as heretofore amended, and to re-enact Section 15,
Chapter 400, Acts of 1918, which became a law March 21, 1918, short title of
which is “The Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act.” [H B 82]

Approved March 10, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen, of chapter four hundred of the Acts of nineteen hundred and
eighteen, short title of which is “The Workmen’s Compensation Act.”,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 15. This act shall not apply to common carriers whose mo-
tive power is steam and engaged in intra-state trade or commerce, nor
shall this act be construed to lessen the liability of such common carriers
or take away or diminish any right that any employee, or in case of his
death, the personal representative of such employee, of such common car-
rier may have, under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, relating
to liability of common carriers whose motive power is steam and engaged
in intra-state commerce for injury to or death of their employees, and pro-
viding for pleading thereof, approved March twenty-first, nineteen hun-
dred and sixteen, or under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia,
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act imposing upon railroad cor-
porations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases, approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, nor to casual employees,
farm and horticultural laborers and domestic servants nor to employees
of such persons, nor to any persons, firm or private corporation, includ-
ing any public service corporation, that has regularly in service less than
seven employees in the same business within this State; unless such em-
ployees and their employers voluntarily elect to be bound by this act.