An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1968 |
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Law Number | 183 |
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Law Body
CHAPTER 183
An Act to amend and reenact § 56-274, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to vehicles excluded from operation of Chapter 12,
Title 56, Code of Virginia.
[S 265]
Approved March 138, 1968
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. Vehicles excluded from operation of chapter.—This chap-
ter 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 perform-
ing 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
authority under this chapter;
(83) 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
nature 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 1s 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, nineteen 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 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 trans-
ported ;
(6) Motor vehicles controlled and operated by a bona fide cooperative
association as defined in the Federal Marketing Act, approved June
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, as amended, or organized or
existing under chapter 15 of Title 13 (Title 13.1, §§ 13.1-312 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, horti-
cultural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products
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;
(8) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in the distribution of
newspapers;
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.
(13) Motor vehicles while used exclusively in transporting bona fide
domestic help and laborers from any county in which they reside and
shown by the 1960 United States census to have had a population of
fewer than 168,000 to and from their places of accustomed employment
in any county shown by the 1960 United States census to have had a
population in excess of 168,000, when adequate common carrier service
for the class of persons to be transported is not available or provided;
provided, that such service is limited to one vehicle and one operator;
provided further, that the operator of such vehicle shall first secure from
the Commission a permit, and the necessary warrant for the 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
application ig made, with a statement in writing signed by the applicant
setting forth the names of the persons to be transported, and that such
applicant will transport only the persons named or added from time
to time 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.