Chap. 191.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing
the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road
fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved
April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for
the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, and to authorize the said
board of supervisors to create a general maintenance road fund.

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Approved March 14, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Chesterfield county shall create a general
road fund by setting apart and appropriating thereto out of the
county fund a sum equal to a levy of ten cents on the hundred dol-
lars of valuation of all property levied on to provide such county
fund, which general road fund and such other moneys as may be
lawfully appropriated thereto shall be expended only towards the
permanent improvement of the public roads of said county as is
contemplated by this act.

2. ‘There is hereby created a board, to be known as the advisory
road board. The said advisory road board shall consist of one mem-
ber from each magisterial district, to be appointed on or before the
first day of July, nineteen hundred and three, by the judge of the
county court, in term or in vacation, and annually thereafter by the
judge of the circuit court of the county of Chesterfield, in term or
In vacation. The said advisory road board shall have authority,
and it shall be its duty, to designate the roads in each district to be
improved under the provisions of this act, and specify the character
of improvement to be made on each road, and the board of super-
visors shall thereupon cause such road or roads or parts of roads in
said county as said advisory road board may, from time to time,
have so designated to be built, improved or repaired in a permanent
manner, or as nearly so as may be practicable.

3. The board of supervisors shall, within thirty days after this
act shall have been approved by the governor, and annually there-
after, appoint a county superintendent of roads for a term of one
year from the date of his appointment, and from time to time, fix
his compensation and prescribe his duties, where they are not pre-
scribed by this act; and said board of supervisors may remove such
superintendent from office and may fill any vacancy in said office,
and said board of supervisors may, from time to time, if deemed

by it necessary, appoint a deputy or deputies for said superintendent
upon his request, for such times as it may direct, but not extending
beyond the term of the superintendent, and fix the compensation
of such deputies; and said board shall have authority to employ all
other agents and engineers as it may deem necessary, prescribe their
duties and fix their compensation, and shall have full power to pur-
chase inachinery, teams, supplies and materials, and perform all
other acts necessary to carry out the spirit of this act. It shall also
have authority to forbid the public from traveling on any road or
portion of road while the same is being built, improved or repaired;
and thereafter when such travel would, by weather conditions, in
the opinion of said board, greatly damage such road. It may make
all necessary contracts, and shall require proper bonds from all
agents and contractors for faithful performance of duties or con-
tracts. All work and contracts shall be done and performed to the
satisfaction of the board of supervisors, and all moneys shall be
paid by the warrant of said board.

4, The member of the advisory road board and the member of
the bourd of supervisors from each magisterial district, together
with the county superintendent of roads, shall constitute a district
road board for such magisterial district, which board shall have the
immediate control and supervision of all work done or performed on
the roads of the districts under the provisions of this act.

5. The said board of supervisors shall have authority if, in its
opinion it shall be judicious to do so, to require all persons who ma
use wagons, carts, or other vehicles in said county to provide su
wagons, carts or vehicles with tires of such width as said board may
prescribe, upon such conditions as said board may prescribe, and
may prescribe such penalty for the failure of any person to comply
with such requirement or order as said board may deem best.

5a. The said board of supervisors shall create a general mainte-
nance road fund by setting apart and appropriating thereto each
year out of the county fund, a sum equal to a levy of ten cents on the
one hundred dollars of valuation of all property levied on to pro-
duce such county fund, which general maintenance road fund shall,
by said board of supervisors, be used to maintain and repair an
of the roads of said county which have been permanently improved,
and any of the bridges of said county, or to meet the proportion re-
quired of the county in order to receive either State or federal aid
in such maintenance. 7

6. The board of supervisors shall have the authority to appro-
priate to the general road fund or to the general maintenance road
fund provided for by this act any balance that may remain at the
end of any fiscal year to the credit of the county fund or levy, or so
much of said balance as said board may deem it wise to appropriate;
and said board may at any time appropriate to said general funds
such sums of the county levy as it may deem necessary and proper.

7. No supervisor or other public officer, member of the advisory
board, superintendent of roads, or deputy or engineer shall have any
mae in any work or contract done or had under the provisions
of this act.
8. The members of the advisory board hereby created, and the
superintendent of roads, shall qualify by taking the usual oath for
the faithful performance of their duties.

9. The board of supervisors may, in its discretion, allow the
members of the advisory board such compensation for services per-
formed as it may deem just, but if such board shall decline to allow
any compensation, there shall be no appeal from its decision.

9a. All unexpended sums remaining in such general funds at the
end of each fiscal year shall revert to the county fund.

10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.