Chap. 520.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to powers of a local nature conferred on boards of supervisors,
as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924. [H B 151]

Approved March 25, 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 further amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows:

Section 2743. Powers of local nature conferred on boards of super-
visors.—In addition to the powers conferred by other 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 abolish existing toll-gates on State aid roads;

To adopt quarantine regulations affecting both persons and ani-
mals 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
pet respective counties not inconsistent with the general laws of this

tate.

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 imprisonment in
the county jail be prescribed in any case, such imprisonment shall not
exceed thirty days.

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