Chap. 377.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924, relating to pete
of boards of supervisors. [H B 315]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2743. Powers of local nature conferred on boards of
supervisors.—In addition to the powers conferred by other general
statutes, the board of supervisors of every county shall have power:

To establish or abolish tolls on roads built and maintained wholly
by the county and not receiving aid from the State.

To adopt quarantine regulations affecting both persons and animals
in furtherance of the protection of the health of the county and not
inconsistent with general statutes;

To adopt the necessary regulations to prevent the spread of con-
tagious diseases among persons or animals;

To provide against and. prevent the pollution of water in their
respective counties whereby it is rendered dangerous to the health
or lives of persons residing in the county; ,

To prevent the destruction of game, fish, wild fowls, birds, and
fur-bearing animals and to limit still further than is provided by
general law the time, manner, and means by which they may be taken
or killed; the number that may be taken or removed from the county
in a given time, and the manner and condition of such removal;

To prevent trespassing by persons, animals and fowls; and to pre-
vent animals from trespassing and running at large upon the public
highways, whether such highways be enclosed by fence or not;

To adopt such measures as they may deem expedient to secure
and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the inhabitants
of their respective counties not inconsistent with the general laws of
this State.

For carrying into effect these and their other powers, the boards
of supervisors may make ordinances and by-laws and prescribe fines
and other punishment for violation thereof, which shall be enforced
by proceedings before a justice of the peace in like manner, and with
like right of appeal as if such violation were misdemeanors. Such
fines, however, shall in no case exceed fifty dollars, and if imprison-
ment in the county jail be prescribed in any case, such imprisonment
shall not exceed thirty days; provided, however, that the penalty
for trespassing and running at large of fowls and animals shall in no
case exceed five dollars.

No such ordinance or by-law shall be passed until after notice of
an intention to propose the same for passage shall have been pub-
lished for two successive weeks prior to its passage in some newspaper
published in the county or if there be none such in some newspaper
published in an adjoining county or nearby city and having a general
circulation in the county of said board, and no such ordinance or
by-law shall become effective until after it shall have been published
in full for two successive weeks in a like newspaper.