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Volume | 1904 |
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Law Number | 83 |
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Chap. 83.—An ACT to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to pro-
vide for the working of the roads of said county.
Approved March 8, 1904..
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there is
hereby created a board, to be known as “The Fauquier County Road
Board.” ‘The said board shall consist of one member from each magis-
terial district, to be appointed, as soon as practicable after this act shall
become a law, by the judge of the circuit court for a period of two years
from the date of appointment.
2. The said board shall have the control, supervision, and management
over all the roads and bridges of the county, and shall have the authority,
and it shall be its duty, to direct the improvement of the same in such
manner as shall seem to them practicable and best for the interests of
the traveling community.
8. The said board shall, within thirty days after this act shall become
a law, and for every two years thereafter, choose a county superintendent
of roads, and recommend him for appointment to the judge of the circuit
court of the county of Fauquier, who shall, in term time or in vacation,
appoint the said nominee (who shall be either a civil engineer or a person
well versed in road building) as said county superintendent for a period
of two years. And the said county board may appoint a deputy, or depu-
ties, for said superintendent, upon his request or at their discretion, for
such times as it may direct, but not exceeding the term of the superin-
tendent. And said board shall have authority to employ such other
agents as it may deem necessary, and shall have full power to direct the
purchase of machinery, teams, supplies, and materials, and perform all
other acts to carry out the spirit of this act. It may make all necessary
contracts, and shall require proper bonds from all agents and contractors
for the faithful performance of their duties. The said circuit court may
remove the said county superintendent from office, upon the application
of the said road board, and may fill any vacancy in said office by the ap-
pointment of the nominee recommended for such position by the county
board. The said county board shall fix the compensation of the county
superintendent and his deputies, and of all agents or contractors created
by them under and by virtue of this act.
4. The board of supervisors of the county of Fauquier shall create a
general road fund by setting apart and apportioning thereto one-half of
the road fund of each district of said county in each year, including the
levies made after this act shall become a law, which general road fund,
and such other moneys as may be lawfully appropriated thereto, shall be
expended towards the permanent improvement only of the public roads
in said county, in accordance with the provisions of this act.
5. The member of the said county road board and the member of the
board of supervisors from each magisterial district, together with the
county superintendent, shall constitute a district road board for such
magisterial district, which board shall have the immediate control of the
work done or performed on the roads of the respective districts, subject,
however, to supervision ‘and direction by the said board for the county.
The said county road board shall have authority, to be exercised in its
discretion, to require all persons who may use wagons, carts, or other con-
veyances for heavy transportation in said county, to provide such vehicles
with tires of a width not less than three inches, and upon such conditions
as said board may prescribe, but said power hereby conferred shall not be
exercised before the expiration of two years from the organization of said
board, and not without notice duly published at the front door of the
courthouse, and in the county papers, six months prior to action by them
upon this subject. The said board may prescribe such additional condi-
tions for compliance with this act as may seem to it considerate for the
traveling public of the county and the improvement and preservation of
the roads ; and may also fix such penalty for the failure of any person to
comply with the requirement for broad tires as may seem best to them.
6. The board of supervisors for the said county shall have the authority
to appropriate to the general road fund provided for by this act, and the
general road law for the State, any balance that remains at the end of
any fiscal year to the credit of the county fund or levy, upon the appli-
cation of the county road fund.
7. Bonds may be issued by the county of Fauquier for the purpose of
macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving the roads of the said
county or building bridges therein. The circuit court of the said county
may, upon the petition of a majority of the said county road board, make
an order requiring the judges of election at the next general election of
the said county or district officers, or at any other time not less than
thirty days from the date of said order, which shall be designated therein,
to open the poll and take the sense of the qualified voters on the question
whether there shall be issued bonds by the board of supervisors of said
county, to be expended in macadamizing or permanently improving, or
building the roads of said county. The said election shall be held in
accordance with the conditions and requirements of the general road law
for the State; and the bonds, if it shall appear by the report of the com-
missioners of election that a majority of the qualified voters of the
county, including a majority of the freeholders voting upon the question,
are in favor of issuing the bonds for the purpose aforesaid, the circuit
court shall, at its next term after such election, enter of record an order
requiring the supervisors of the county to proceed, at their next meeting,
© comply with the provisions of the general road law for the issuance of
aid bonds.
8. Said bonds, when issued, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the
‘county, who shall place the proceeds of the sale thereof to the credit of
the county road fund; and the said treasurer shall be liable for the
imount received for said bonds as though it were a county levy. The said
fund shall be expended upon the warrant or order of the said county road
yoard for the purpose for which it was created. The said treasurer shall
‘ecelve as compensation for his services hereunder a commission of one-
fourth of one per centum on the amount thus coming into his hands.
9. The amount of bonds issued under this act shall not exceed the
sum, the interest upon which, at the rate fixed by the board of super-
visors of the county, shall require the imposition of an annual tax of
twenty cents on the one hundred dollars. All moneys which shall belong
to the general road fund of the county under the provisions of this act,
or of the general road law for the State, shall be paid by the order of the
county road board upon the treasurer of the county.
10. No member of said road board, or other public officer, or any
officer created by this act, shall have any interest in any work done under
the provisions of said act.
11. The members of the said county road board hereby created and the
superintendent of roads and his deputies shall qualify by taking the usual
oath for the faithful performance of their duties, and the said members
cf the said road board shall serve without compensation.
12. The said road board may employ a clerk at a salary of not more
than fifty dollars per annum.
13. The governor shall have authority to furnish to the county of Fau-
quier, upon the requisition of the said county road board, convicts whose
terms of service at the time of application for them does not exceed five
years, in conformity with chapter two hundred and two, title fifty-five,
of the Code of Virginia for eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to work
on the county roads under such regulations as the said county road
board may prescribe in conformity with said chapter, and on such condi-
tions as to safekeeping as the governor and said board may agree upon.
14. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed; and all parts of the general road law for the State not incon-
sistent with this act are hereby enacted as part and parcel of this act.