Chap. 227.—An ACT to permit turnpike companies to regulate and control
travel and traffic on turnpike roads. — [H B 263]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
turnpike company shall have the right to make reasonable rules and
regulations not in conflict with the provisions of chapter one hundred
and sixty-one of the Code, in regard to the use, management, oper-
ation and control of any turnpike or road owned, leased, controlled
or operated by it, including the right to authorize the use of its road
to any person or corporation operating an auto bus or truck line for
transportation of passengers or freight. But all such rules and regu-
lations shall first be submitted to and approved by the board of
supervisors in each county in which the said turnpike company is
located, and said rules and regulations shall be effective in any county
when so approved by the board of supervisors in such county and
published in such county by weekly publications for two weeks in
some newspaper published or having a general circulation in such
county. Violation of any rule or regulation duly approved and pub-
lished as aforesaid shall constitute a misdemeanor and be punishable
as such. .

2. An emergency existing in order that turnpike companies may
enact rules and regulations for the protection, use, management, oper-
ation and control of their turnpikes and roads, this act shall be |
force from its passage.