CHAPTER 575

An Act to amend and reenact, § 56-274, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the excluston of certain vehicles from certain
provisions of law applicable to public service companies.

[S 475]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 56-274, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 56-274. This chapter shall not be construed to include:

(1) Motor vehicles employed solely in transporting school children
and teachers;

(2) Taxicabs, or other motor vehicles performing bona fide taxicab
service, having a seating capacity of not more than six passengers, while
operating in a city, town or county which has or adopts an ordinance
regulating and controlling taxicabs and other vehicles performing a bona
fide taxicab service, and not operating on a regular route or between fixed
termini; provided, however, that each operator of a motor vehicle per-
forming a bona fide taxicab service shall file insurance as required under
§ 56-299 unless evidence can be shown the Commission that the operator
is a self-insurer under an ordinance of the city or an ordinance of the
county where the home office of the operator is located; and failure to keep
insurance in force shall subject the operator to cancellation of any author-
ity under this chapter;

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

(4) Motor vehicles owned and operated by the United States, the
District 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;

(5) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in transporting only bona
fide employees directly to and from the factory, plant or other place of like
mature where they are all employed and accustomed to work, provided
that the operator of such vehicle shall first secure from the Commission
a permit, and the necessary warrant for each vehicle so operated, neither
of which permit nor warrant shall be issued by the Commission unless
the applicant shall furnish the Commission at the time the application
is made, with a statement in writing signed by the applicant setting
forth the name and location of the factory, plant or other place of like
nature to and from which applicant proposes to operate, and that such
applicant will transport only bona fide employees of such factory, plant
or like place to and from work, which permit shall be subject to revocation
or suspension and the holder thereof subject to the imposition of penalties
by the Commission for any of the causes and in the manner and to the
extent provided for by § 56-297; provided that any permit issued by the
Commission under the provisions of this section prior to July first, nine-
teen hundred fifty, shall, unless suspended or revoked as herein provided,
continue to be valid; but any such permit or permit holder shall in all
other respects be subject to the provisions of this section. But the Com-
mission 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 ;

(6) Motor vehicles controlled and operated by a bona fide cooperative
association as defined in the Federal Marketing Act, approved June fif-
teenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, as amended, or organized or
existing under Chapter 15 of Title 18 (Title 18.1, §§ 18.1-312 to 13.1-
344) of this Code, while used exclusively in the conduct of the business
of such association.

(7) 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 shellfish), slate, horticul-
tural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products
thereof), and forest products, including lumber and staves (but not includ-
ing manufactured products thereof), or in the transportation of farm sup-
plies being delivered to a farm or farms;

(8) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the distribution of
newspapers ;

(9) Motor vehicles while engaged in hauling for the State Depart-
ment of Highways;

(10) Any motor vehicle while transporting not more than five pas-
sengers in addition to the driver, if the driver and the passengers are
engaged in a share-the-ride undertaking and if they share not more than
the expenses of operation of the vehicle;

(11) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the transportation of
passengers or property within the corporate limits of incorporated cities
or towns.

(12) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in carrying fertilizer to
any warehouse or warehouses for subsequent distribution to a local area
farm or farms.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.