CHAPTER 473

An Act to amend and reenact § 56-47, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to organization of public service corporations other
than railroads and what articles of association to state.

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Approved April 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 56-47, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:
§ 56-47. Any number of persons not less than five, may, by execut-
ing, filing and recording articles of association as hereinafter set forth,
associate under the provisions and subject to the requirements of this
chapter to establish a corporation to purchase, lease, construct, maintain
and operate telegraph or telephone lines, or both, a canal, a ferry, a
turnpike, or any other works, except a railroad, intended to be used for
public service, in which articles of association there shall be stated:

(1) The name of the corporation.

(2) The nature or character of the works to be purchased, leased,
or constructed, maintained and operated, and whether local to any city
or county; and if so local, the name of the city or county in which the
same is constructed or to be constructed, maintained and operated.

(3) If a telegraph or telephone line, canal, ferry, turnpike or other
works constructed or proposed to be constructed through or into two or
more cities or counties, then the principal terminal places thereof.

(4) Whether local or not, the estimated length of the proposed tele-
graph or telephone line, canal, ferry, or turnpike, and if any other works
intended to be used for public service, the estimated extent of such works
and the length of any line of construction or improvement connected or
to be connected therewith; and if any of the same are constructed, or
intended to be constructed, through or into, or between, two or more
cities or counties, then the name of each city or county through or into
which the same is constructed, or intended to be constructed.

(5) If a bridge, viaduct, aqueduct or tunnel corporation, the approx-
imate location of its work of improvements, its estimated length and
width, and the general character of the materials proposed to be used in
construction.

(6) The period, if any, limited for the duration of the corporation.

(7) The maximum and minimum amount of the capital stock of
the corporation, and its division into shares.

(8) The names and places of residence of the directors, of whom
there shall be not less than five, and of the officers who shall manage
the affairs of the corporation for the first year, unless others are sooner
chosen by the stockholders to act in their places.

(9) The place in this State in which its principal office will be
located, together with the name of its post office.

(10) The articles of association may also contain any other provi-
sion not inconsistent with law or the provisions of this chapter which
the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation of the business
and the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and any provision as
to the plan of financial organization, or relating to the internal regula-
tion or government of the corporation, its directors, stockholders, or any
class or classes thereof.

If the purpose of the corporation is to operate motor propelled
vehicles as common carriers for the transportation of persons or prop-
erty for compensation on any improved public highways or by air routes
in this State, subsections (2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section shall not
apply; but the articles of association shall state in lieu thereof such pur-
pose and further state that the corporation will operate such routes as it
may be authorized to operate by certificates of public convenience and
necessity issued from time to time in accordance with law.

Provided further, that no turnpike or toll road shall be constructed
or operated in this State unless and until a certificate of approval be first
obtained from the State Highway Commission certifying that the opera-
tion of such toll road or turnpike will not be harmful or injurious to the
secondary or primary roads embraced in the system of State highways.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-296 of the Code of Virginia, relating
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Approved April 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ba That § 22-296 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted, as
ollows:

§ 22-296. The State Board shall select textbooks and educational
appliances, including films, for use in the public schools of the State,
exercising such discretion as it may see fit in the selection of books suit-
able for the schools in the cities and counties respectively.