Chap. 374.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as amended, of Chapter
129 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 9, 1936, known as the
Motor Vehicle Carriers Act, relating to certain exemptions from operation
of act. {H 316}

Approved March 31, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section two, as amended, of chapter one hundred twenty-
nine of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-six, approved
March nine, nineteen hundred thirty-six, known as the Motor Vehicle
Carriers Act, be amended and re-enacted, 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 tani-
cab service, having a capacity of not more than six passengers and not
operating on a regular route or between fixed termini, provided, however,
that each operator of a motor vehicle performing a bona fide taxicab
service shall file insurance as required under section twelve of this act
unless evidence can be shown the Commission that the operator is a
self-insurer under an ordinance of the city where the home office of the
operator is located; and failure to keep insurance in force shall subject
the operator to cancellation of any authority under this act.

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

(d) Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States, Dis-
trict of Columbia, or any state, or any municipality or any other political
subdivision 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 war-
rant 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 twenty-nine, as amended,
or organized or existing under the State Co-operative Marketing Act
(Virginia, nineteen hundred twenty-two), as amended, while used ex-
clusively in the conduct of the business of such association ;

(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, horti-
cultural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured prod-
ucts 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 Depart-
ment 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.