Chap. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to invest in
boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a popula-
tion of 125,000 or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the
Same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common
councils of cities and towns, approved March 4, 1920. [H B 21}

Approved February 13, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining
and abutting a city with a population of one hundred and twenty-five
thousand, or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the
same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon
common councils of cities and towns, approved March fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 1. The boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and
abutting a city, within or without this State, with a population of one
hundred and twenty-five thousand, or more inhabitants, as determined
by the United States census, be, and they are, hereby vested with the
same powers and authority as are now vested or which may hereafter
be vested in the councils of cities and towns by virtue of the Constitu-
tion of the State of Virginia or the acts of the assembly passed or which
may hereafter be passed, in pursuance thereof, ‘Provided, however,
that no ordinance shall be enacted under authority of this act regulating
the equipment, operation, lighting, or speed or motor propelled vehicles
operated on the public highways of such county, unless the same be
uniform with general laws of this State regulating such equipment,
operation, lighting or speed and with the regulations of the State high-
way commission enacted pursuant to such general laws.”

Provided, that all laws enacted by boards of supervisors under
authority of this act shall be submitted to and approved by the judge
of the circuit court of the respective counties, after hearing testimony
of all parties desiring to be heard to be taken as in common law cases,
showing the necessity of such laws and police regulations, or in opposi-
tion thereto. This act shall not affect any annexation proceedings now
or hereafter instituted by ‘any city to annex the territory or any part
thereof of any county coming under the provisions of this act.