Chap. 226.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906,
entitled an act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special and
local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstructien,
encroachment, and injury, to make violations of such enactments a mis-
demeanor, and to provide penalties.

Approved March 15, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to
empower boards of supervisors to enact special and local legislation to
protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment, and
injury, to make violations of such enactments a misdemeanor, and pro-
viding penalties, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the Common-
wealth shall have power to enact such special and local legislation in their
respective counties, not in conflict with the Constitution and the general
laws of the Commonwealth, as they may deem expedient to protect the
public roads, ways and bridges of such county from encroachment or ob-
struction or from any improper or exceptionally injurious use thereof,
and this power shall extend to and may be exercised over turnpike roads
the control of which has been given to said boards of supervisors and
whether tolls be taken thereon or not: provided, the board of supervisors
shall not enact a law fixing the width of tires to be used on vehicles
until after the question shall have been submitted to the qualified voters
of the county at a general or special election, and a majority of said voters
shall have voted in favor of the proposed law fixing the width of tires.

Any violation of such enactments shall be deemed a misdemeanor,
and shall be punishable by fine of not less than five nor more than one
hundred dollars for each offense.

Public notice of such legislation by the board of supervisors shall be
given by posting a copy of such enactment at each voting precinct in the
county, and on the front door of the courthouse not less than ten days
before it is to go into effect, or by publishing a copy thereof at least once
in a newspaper published in the county not less than ten days before it is
to go into effect.

2 An emergency existing in that roads are now being injured and
obstructed by misuse, this act shall be in force from its passage.