Chap. 475.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved February 1, 1915, entitled an act to create for
the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe
the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for
controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges
within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating
roads and bridges therein ; and to re peal an act entitled an act for working
and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February
18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14.
1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working
and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February
1, 1894. [S B 274}

Approved March 24, 1920.

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act of the general assembly of Vi irginia, approved February
first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled an act to create for the
county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe
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the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for
controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and
bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and
vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act
for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county,
approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as
amended by acts approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred
and eight, and March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, respec-
tively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping
in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The said commission may appoint a county road engineer
(who shall be a competent civil engineer), who shall devote his whole
time to the duties prescribed by the commission, and who shall attend
each meeting of the commission, and whose salary, to be fixed by it,
shall not be less than thirty-six hundred dollars, nor more than five
thousand dollars, per annum; and it may appoint or employ, or author-
ize the appointment or employment of such additional engineers, over-
seers, agents, servants, laborers, and other subordinates as may be
necessary for the proper performance and execution of the duties im-
posed by this act. It shall also have authority to employ counsel,
when the same is rendered necessary to protect the public interest
incident to its works under this act, and to employ an expert accountant
to assist in opening its initial records and in ascertaining the amounts
of the several funds properly disbursable by it under this act. The
terms, duties and compensation of its respective appointees and em-
ployees shall be as prescribed by it, their compensation shall be a reas-
onable one, and any and all of them shall be removable at its pleasure
for inefficiency or other good cause. .

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.