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 | 1912 |
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Law Number | 153 |
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Law Body
CHAP. 153.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assem-
bly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled “an act to con-
stitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia college
of agriculture and polytechnic institute and the Virginia agricul-
tural. experiment station, the commissioner and State board of
agriculture and the State board of education, in co-operation with
the United States department of agriculture for the betterment
of agricultural, experimental and demonstration work, and generally
to advance the agricultural interest of this State, and to authorize
boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental
and demonstration work in their respective counties.”
Approved March 12, 1912.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled ‘‘an act to constitute a united agricultural board
to co-ordinate the Virginia college of agriculture and polytechnic
institute and the Virginia agricultural experiment station, the
commissioner and State board of agriculture, and the State board
of education, in co-operation with the United States department
of agriculture for the betterment of agricultural, experimental
and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultu-
ral interest of this State and to authorize boards of supervisors
to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration
work in their respective counties,” be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows: |
$1. That a board to be known as the united agricultural board
be, and the same is hereby, established, to be composed of the
governor of the State, the State superintendent of public in-
struction, the general director of demonstration work of the
United States department of agriculture, the Virginia directo}
of demonstration work of the United States department of agri-
culture, and whenever deemed proper and necessary by the said
board it may elect as members a representative from the dairy
division, and a representative from the horticultural division of
the United States department of agriculture.
The members of this board who are officers of this State
shall hold office so long as they hold positions which make them
ex-officio members of this board, and the officials of the United
States department of agriculture herein designated, shall con-
tinue in office so long as that department co-operates in the work
tor which the united agricultural board is established.
The officers of the board shal! be the governor as chairman
and a secretary to be elected by the said board.
$2. The members of the united agricultural board shall not
be entitled to any compensation, but the Virginia members shall
be reimbursed for their actual and necessary traveling expenses
and hotel bills, while engaged in the discharge of their duties,
to be paid out of the funds hereinafter mentioned, allotted re-
spectively to the State agencies entitled to membership on the
board.
$3. The united agricultural board shall take charge of and
conduct the demonstration work in the State of Virginia as far
as possible in connection and co-operation with the United
States department of agriculture, and shall, as fast as appro-
priations by the several counties shall be made and its own funds
permit, extend its work until every county in the State shall be
occupied and improved methods of agriculture, embracing all
crops made in the state, improved methods of horticulture, and
everything for the advancement of the agricultural interests
shall be taught and demonstrated. And in addition to the duties
enumerated in this section the board shall discharge such other
duties as may be imposed by any act or acts of the general as-
sembly of Virginia.
$4. For the purpose of carrying this bill into effect in ad-
dition to the money allotted by the United States department
of agriculture, and the general education board, acting through
the United States general director of demonstration work, and
from other sources, the State board of education is hereby di-
rected to appropriate and set apart for the work of the boys’
corn clubs connected with the public schools the sum of five thou-
sand dollars, and for the girls’ garden clubs connected with the
public schools two thousand dollars annually, and the sum of
ten thousand dollars shall be annually paid to the united agricul-
tural board out of any funds in the treasury of the State not
otherwise appropriated; said several sums of money to be paid
by warrants authorized by the united agricultural board, signed
by its secretary and countersigned by its chairman; provided,
that all money appropriated under this act shall be used for the
purposes of this act. An itemized statement with proper vouch-
ers for disbursements shall be reported to the governor each year,
examined by the public accountants and at all times be subject
to inspection by the legislature or any of its committees.
§5. It shall be the duty of the board, in co-operation with the
United States department of agriculture, to see to it that compe-
tent demonstrators or county agents are employed and their work
faithfully done.
$6. The board may determine its own by-laws and rules of
procedure, except that a meeting may be called at any time by
the chairman on ten days’ notice, and the secretary shall issue
calls for a meeting of the members of the board, giving ten days’
notice, upon request in writing of not less than three members,
and it shall require a majority vote ot the entire membership
to pass any question or resolution coming before it. In case of a
tie vote the governor shall be entitled to cast an additional de-
ciding vote.
$7. The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the
State are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate out
of county funds for experimental and demonstration work in
their respective counties such sums as the said boards shall deem
proper, not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each one thousand
inharitants.
<5. But nothing in this act shall apply to the Virginia truck
experiment station.