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 | 1914 |
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Law Number | 186 |
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CHAP. 186.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Altavista, in
Campbell county, Virginia, granted by the circuit court of Campbell
county by an order duly entered of record pursuant to an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act
to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than
200 and less than 5,000 inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns
when incorporated,-certain powers of taxation. (H. B. 497.)
Approved March 21, 1914.
Whereas, pursuant to an act of the general assembly approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to
provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than
two hundred and less than five thousand inhabitants, and conferring
upon said towns when incorporated, certain powers of taxation, the
circuit court of the county of Campbell by its order duly entered
in the records of the said court declared the town of Altavista, in
said county of Campbell, a body, politic and corporate, with all
the powers, privileges and duties conferred upon and appertaining
to towns under the general laws of the State of Virginia; and,
Whereas, the act aforesaid provided no method for amending
charters of towns granted thereunder, and it is desired by the council
of the town of Altavista,'as well as by the inhabitants of said town,
that all taxable property within the corporate limits of said town
shall be exempt from all distinct levies by the county authorities for
the construction, repair, or maintenance of roads outside of said
town; now, therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the charter of the town of Altavista, as set forth in the order afore-
said of the circuit court of Campbell county, and the general laws
of the State of Virginia, in relation to the powers, privileges and
duties of incorporated towns, so far as the same may be applicable
thereto, be amended so as to read as follows:
(1) The town of Altavista, in Campbell county, its inhabitants
and all taxable property within the corporate limits of the said
tuwn shall be exempt from all assessments or levies in the way of
for the construction, repair, or maintenance of roads lying outside
of said town; provided, however, that all such taxable property
within the corporation limits of said town shall not be exempt from
any special levy of taxes which may be made by said authorities of
Campbell county for the purpose of macadamizing or otherwise
permanently improving the public roads or bridges either of the
said county or of the magisterial district in which said town is
located, pursuant to any special election for either of such purposes
as now provided by law; but in the event of any such special elec-
tion for the purpose of authorizing the issuance of bonds to build
roads or bridges either in the county, or in the district in which
said town is located, the qualified voters of said town shall have
the right to vote at any such election; and, provided, further, that
the said town of Altavista shall construct, repair, and maintain all
streets and roads within the corporate limits of said town.
2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby
repealed.