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 | 1901/1902 |
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Law Number | 512 |
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Law Body
Chap. 512.—An ACT to authorize and provide for a special election in the Dublin
magisterial district, of Pulaski county, as to the purchase by the board of
supervisors of said county of a one-third interest in the bridge across New
river at the city of Radford, and to authorize and empower said board to bor-
row $5,000, to be expended in the purchase of said one-third interest in said
bridge, and to execute and issue the bonds of said county therefor, and to levy
a tax to pay the same, and to authorize and empower contracts and deeds to be
made and entered into between said board of supervisors, the council of said
city of Radford, and the owner of said bridge as to the purchase thereof—one-
third by said board and two-thirds by said council—and to authorize and em-
power said board and said council to contract between themselves and third
parties as to the maintenance, care, and repair of said bridge, and to change
said bridge from a toll to a free bridge.
Approved April 2, 1902.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an election
shall be held in the Dublin magisterial district, of Pulaski county, on the
fourth Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and two, upon the question
of the purchase by the board of supervisors of said county of a one-third
interest in the steel wagon bridge that crosses New river at Radford ;
written or printed notices of this election shall be posted by the sheriff
of said county at the several voting precincts in said magisterial district
at least ten days before said election.
2. The judges.of election at the several voting precincts of said magis-
terial district, after taking an oath faithfully to discharge the duty as-
signed to them, shall on the said fourth Thursday in May, nineteen hun-
dred and two, open polls at the various voting places in said magisterial
district, and shall conduct said election and close the polls as is provided
by law in other elections, and for said election a special ballot shall be
provided by the county electoral board, with the words printed thereon
“For bridge purchase” in one line and the words “Against bridge pur-
chase” in another line, and each ballot that is deposited by a voter at said
election shall be endorsed with the name of such voter, which shall be in-
spected by the judges conducting said election at the said several voting
places, and the said judges of election shall immediately after the clos-
ing of the polls at their respective voting places count the ballots, depos-
ited, and shall within two days’ after said election make return to the
judge of the county court of the number of the votes cast for and the
number of votes cast against said bridge purchase, and shall return to
and deposit with the clerk of said court, in separate sealed packages, the
ballots for and against said bridge purchase, and the judge shall
appoint four citizens of said magistcrial district, two of whom at least
shall be freeholders, who, with the clerk aforesaid, shall constitute a
board of commissioners, whose duty it shall be, within two days there-
after, to meet at the office of said clerk, and, having taken an oath be-
fore him faithfully to discharge the said duties, to open the said pack-
age of ballots, count the same, correct the return if needed, and ascer-
tain and report how many of said ballots were cast by freeholders and
how many by non-freeholders for and against said bridge purchase, re-
spectively, which said report, signed by a majority of said board, shall
he centered on the order book of said county court.
3. If it shall appear by the report of said board of commissioners that
| majority of the qualified voters of said magisterial district voting upon
aid question at said election are in favor of the purchase by said board
yf supervisors of a one-third interest in said bridge, and that said ma-
jority includes a majority of the votes cast by freeholders at said election,
hen the said board of supervisors shall be, and is hereby, authorized and
2mpowered to purchase and acquire, at a price not exceeding the sum of
five thousand dollars, a one-third interest in said bridge: provided,
always, and it is a condition on which this act is passed, that the council
of the said city of Radford shall purchase and acquire the remaining
two-thirds interest in said bridge, which said council is hereby authorized
and empowered to do, and to that end said board of supervisors and said
council of said city of Radford, and the owner or owners of said bridge,
are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into negotiations and to
make, execute and acknowledge all necessary and proper contracts and
deeds, having in view the sale and transferring of the title of said
bridge, one-third interest therein to said board of supervisors and two-
thirds interest therein to said council of said city of Radford.
4. In order to provide funds to purchase and acquire said one-third
interest in said bridge, said board of supervisors is hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow the sum of five thousand dollars, and to execute
the bonds of said county of Pulaski therefor; said bonds shall be
signed by the chairman of the said board and countersigned by the clerk.
They shall be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars and mul-
tiples thereof, and shall be negotiable and payable to bearer or order at
the Pulaski National Bank. The interest thereon shall be payable an-
nually at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum; coupons for
such intercst shall be attached thereto. Said bonds shall be payable in
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten years from the
dates thereof, respectively, and they shall not be negotiated or sold by
said board of supervisors for less than face value.
5. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said Pulaski
county, beginning with the year nineteen hundred and two, to add an-
nually to the road levy of Dublin district, in said county, a sum suffi-
cient to pay the accrued interest on said bonds, and to pay off and retire
an amount equal to five hundred dollars in value of said bonds annually
until the whole serics, with accrued interest, shall have been paid off anc
retired. And the amount raised by such additional levy shall be used fo1
that and no other purpose by said board.
6. If said bridge shall be purchased and acquired by said board of su
pervisors and said council of said city of Radford as herein provided for
it shall thereupon cease to be a toll bridge, and no charges or toll whatever:
shall thereafter be made or taken for passing thereover, whether by foo
passengers, animals, vehicles, wagons, or in any capacity whatsoever.
Y. Said board of supervisors and said council of said city of Radforc
shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to enter int
contracts and agreements with each other with reference to the mainte
nance, repair, and care of said bridge, and they are further authorize
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and empowered jointly to enter into contracts or agreements with third
parties or contractors with reference to the repair, maintenance, and care
of said bridge.
8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
9. This act shall be in force from its passage.