Chap. 161.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act to provide
a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts
of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908. CH. B. 27.)

Approved March 21, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-six of an act to provide a new charter for the city of
Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict there-
with, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

46. To close, or extend, widen or narrow, lay out, graduate,
curve, pave, and otherwise improve the streets, sidewalks and public
alleys in said city and have them kept in good order and properly
lighted and over any street or alley in the city which has been, or
may be ceded and conveyed to the city of proper deed, they shall
have like power and authority as over other streets and alleys.
They may build bridges in and culverts under said streets and
alleys, and may prevent or remove any structure, obstruction, or
encroachment over or under, or in any street, sidewalk or alley in
said city, and may permit shade trees to be planted along said
streets. The city is hereby given express power and authority to
open, lay out, and improve new streets across the track or tracks,
yard or yards, of any railroad in the city, and any such new or
existing street or streets may cross any such track, yard or yards,
ct any railroad in the city, in the discretion of the council either
at grade, or pass above or below any such existing structure or
structures; provided, that before any such crossing shall be made
over any yard or yards of a railroad company, such crossing or
crossings shall be approved by the State corporation commission
and shall be made on such terms and conditions as may be pre-
scribed or approved by said State corporation commission. No
street railway, gas, water, steam or electric heating, electric light-
ing or power, cold storage, compressed air, viaduct, conduit, tele-
phone or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, person,
or partnership, engaged in these or like enterprises, shall be per-
mitted to use the streets, alleys, or public grounds of the city, with-
out the previous consent of the council of said city, and in the
manner provided by law. In the meantime no order shall be made,
no injunction shall be awarded by any court or judge to stay the
proceedings of the city in the prosecution of their works, unless it
be manifest that they, their officers, agent, or servants are transcend-
ing the authority given them by this act, and that the interposition
of the court is necessary to prevent injury that cannot be ade-
quately compensated in damages.