CHAPTER 576

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-1738.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to free passage over certain toll bridges and ferries.
[S 335]

Approved April 6, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-173.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 33-173.1. It shall be unlawful for the State Highway Department
or any employee thereof to give or permit free passage over any bridge
or ferry which has been secured through the issuance of revenue bonds
and which bonds are payable from the revenues of such project. Every
vehicle shall pay the same toll as others similarly situated. The pro-
visions heerof shall apply with full force and effect to vehicles and em-
ployees of the State government, governments of counties, cities and
towns or other political subdivisions, and to vehicles and persons of all
other categories and descriptions, public, private, eleemosynary, or other-
wise. There shall be excepted from the provisions of this section vehicles
and persons in the employ of the State Department of Highways when
actually engaged in the performance of their duties as such, and per-
sonnel and vehicles of the Virginia State Police and employees and vehicles
of the Division of Motor Vehicles when actually engaged in the perform-
ance of their duties as such and firefighting equipment and ambulances
owned by a political subdivision or a nonprofit association or corporation
including passengers therein and operators thereof, when engaged in the
performance of their official duties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-61.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the support of children of unwed parents. 5 3
[S 350]

Approved April 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 20-61.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 20-61.1. Whenever in proceedings hereafter under this chapter *
concerning a child whose parents are not married, a man admits before
the court that he is the father of the child or the court finds that the man
has voluntarily admitted paternity in writing, under oath, the court may
then enter and enforce judgment for the support, maintenance and educa-
tion of such child as if the child were born in lawful wedlock.