CHAPTER 572

An Act to amend and reenact § 88-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to free use of toll bridges by certain State officers and employees.
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Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-11 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 33-11. Free use of toll bridges, etc., by certain State officers and
employees.—The State Highway Commissioner, the Commissioner of the
Division of Motor Vehicles, the Superintendent of State Police, members of
the State Highway Commission and all officers, agents and employees of
the Department of Highways, * the Division of Motor Vehicles and the
Department of State Police when actually engaged in the performance of
their duties as such and having and exhibiting the certificates * hereinafter
mentioned, may use all toll bridges and toll ferries in this State without
the payment of toll.

The possession by any person of a certificate of the State Highway
Commissioner, * the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles or
the Superintendent of State Police to the effect that such person is the
State Highway Commissioner, the Commissioner of the Division of Motor
Vehicles, the Superintendent of State Police, a member of the State High-
way Commission, or an officer, agent or employee of the Department of
Highways, * Division of Motor Vehicles and the Department of State
Police, together with such person’s declaration that he 1s actually engaged
in the performance of his duties as such shall be conclusive evidence that
_ person is entitled to use such bridge or ferry without the payment
of toll.

Any toll gate keeper who shall refuse to permit the State Highway
Commissioner, Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles, the Super-
antendent of State Police, member of the Commission, or officer, agent or
employee of the Department of Highways, * Division of Motor Vehicles,
or the Department of State Police to pass through such toll gate or over
such toll bridge or ferry, upon such declaration and presentation of such
certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not
more than fifty dollars, and not less than two dollars and fifty cents. Any
person other than the State Highway Commissioner, the Commissioner of
the Division of Motor Vehicles, the Superintendent of State Police, a
member of the Commission, or officer, agent or employee of the Department
of Highways, * Division of Motor Vehicles or the Department of State
Police who shall exhibit any such certificate and make such declaration
for the purpose of using any toll bridge or ferry shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and punished accordingly.