                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FREE PASSES OR REDUCED RATES (§ 5.1-136)

No air carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, directly or
indirectly, issue or give any free ticket, free pass or free transportation for
passengers, but nothing in this section shall apply (1) to the carriage, storage
or handling of property free or at reduced rates, when such rates have been
authorized or prescribed by the Commission for the United States, state or
municipal governments, or for charitable purposes or to or from fairs and
expositions for exhibition thereat, or (2) to the free carriage of homeless and
destitute persons and the necessary agents employed in such transportation, or
(3) to mileage, excursion or commutation passenger tickets.
		Nor shall anything in this section be construed to prohibit any air carrier
from giving reduced rates or free passage to ministers of religion, or regular
traveling secretaries of the Young Men&#8217;s Christian Association or Young
Women&#8217;s Christian Association, whose duties require regular travel in
supervising and directing Young Men&#8217;s Christian or Young Women&#8217;s
Christian Association work, secretaries of duly organized religious work, or to
indigent persons, or to inmates of the Confederate homes or State homes for
disabled soldiers and sailors, or to disabled soldiers and sailors, including
those about to enter, and those returning home after discharge; nor from giving
free carriage to its own officers, employees, and members of their families,
representatives of the press and members of the Department of State Police or to
any other person or persons to whom the giving of such free carriage is not
otherwise prohibited by the law; nor to prevent the principal officers of any
air carrier from exchanging passes or tickets with other air carriers of any
air, motor vehicle, steamship, or electric railway companies for their officers,
employees and members of their families.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 56-191; 1970, c. 708; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 17.