Chap. 226.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act 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

or controlling, constructing and keeping in epee 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 the working and

keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18,
890, 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, ap-
roved February 1, 1915, as amended by act approved March 19, 1920, an
ebruary 25, 1922. [S B 287]

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That’ section
one of an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk’a com-
mission 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 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 four-
teenth, nineteen hundred and ten, respectively, 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, approved February first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, as
amended by acts approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
twenty and February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of this act the six magisterial districts
of the county of Norfolk shall be divided into three road districts, as
follows: road district number one shall be composed of Tanner’s creek
magisterial district; road district number two shall be composed of
Western branch, Deep creek and Pleasant grove magisterial districts;
road district number three shall be composed of Butts road and Wash-
ington magisterial districts. A permanent commission, to consist of
three members, and to be known as the commission of roads and
bridges for the county of Norfolk, is hereby created. Each of the
members of the said commission shall be qualified to vote and shall
be a resident of the road district for which he is elected. On the Tues-
day after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, and every four years thereafter there shall be elected by the quali-
fied voters of each of the road districts herein described one member
of the said commission, who shall take office on the first day of January
following his election. Whenever a vacancy in said commission shall
occur the judge of the circuit court of Norfolk county shall appoint
his successor, who shall be chosen from the road district in which such
vacancy exists and who shall serve until the next general election, at
which time his successor shall be elected for the unexpired term by the
qualified voters of such road district. The terms of office of the mem-
bers of the commission who may be in office on December thirty-first,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, shall expire on that date. The
commission shall annually elect one of their members chairman, and
another of their members secretary of the same, and shall have authority
to require of the sheriff of said county, or any of his deputies, such
attendance and services as may be necessary to preserve order and
serve notices. All sessions of the commission shall be public, and a
permanent record (to be prepared by the secretary) shall be kept of
its orders, proceedings, receipts, and expenditures, and of all reports
made to it or by it, which shall at all times, during normal business
hours, be open to public inspection. Two of the commissioners shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, whether there be
a vacancy in the commission or not, and a majority of the commissioners
present may decide any question that may properly come before the
meeting. The board of supervisors of said county shall, subject to
the approval of the commission, provide suitable quarters and blank
records for the commission, and the judge of said court shall fix the
salaries of the members of the commission, but the salary of each com-
missioner shall be not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than
fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Due to the added duties and ex-
pense of the chairman, he shall have a salary allowance of not more
than six hundred dollars in excess of the salaries of the other two
commissioners.

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