An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1928 |
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Law Number | 487 |
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Chap. 487.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia,
as last amended by chapter 65 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 72.
[S B 223]
Approved March 26, 1928
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and seventy-five of the Code of Virginia, as last
amended by chapter sixty-five of the acts of assembly of nineteen
hundred and twenty-six, page seventy-two, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
Section 2075. Upon written request of the superintendent of the
penitentiary or of the board of supervisors of any county or the super-
visor of any magisterial district, the judge of the circuit court of any
county or the judge of the corporation court of any city shall, in term
or in vacation, unless any such prisoner shows the said judge good
cause to the contrary, order any male prisoner convicted of a misde-
meanor, or of any offense deemed infamous in law and sentenced to
confinement in jail as a punishment, or part punishment for such of-
fense or who is imprisoned for failure to pay any fine imposed upon
or assessed against him upon such conviction, or who is imprisoned
for a violation of an ordinance of any city or town which by said ordi-
nance is punishable by confinement in jail or fine, to be delivered by
the jailor of such county or city, to or upon the order of the superin-
tendent of the penitentiary, to work in the State convict road force,
and in case of the request of the board of supervisors of a county or
the supervisor of a magisterial district, mayor or council of any city or
town to be delivered by the jailor of such county or city, to or upon the
order of the said board of supervisors of said county or of the said
supervisor of said magisterial district, to work under the direction oft
the county road superintendent or road supervisor for said magisteria
district, or of such person or persons with whom said county or
said magisterial district may have a lawful contract or contracts:
provided, however, that no jailor of a city shall deliver any prisoner.
as aforesaid, to or upon the order of a board of supervisors of a county
or the supervisor of a magisterial district, except the board of the
county in which is located the city or the board of a county adjoining
the county in which is located the city or a supervisor of a district in
any of such counties, and when such request has been so made bv the
superintendent of the penitentiary or by the board of supervisors
aforesaid, or supervisor of the magisterial district aforesaid, it shall
be deemed to be a continuing request until it has been revoked by the
authority making the same. No one so confined who is under the age
of eighteen years shall be so delivered, and the delivery of anv such
one over the age of eighteen and under the age of twenty-one years
shall be discretionary with the court or judge, and persons over the
age of eighteen years imprisoned for violation of city, town or county
ordinances or sentenced to jail for not more than thirty days for ot-
fenses against the Commonwealth or if for more than thirty days.
pending their delivery as members of the State convict road force.
shall be ‘liable primarily to work on chain-gangs or public works
within such cities, towns or counties at the request of the proper author-
ities thereof. Any person so sentenced to such chain-gang or public
works under this section shall have the right of appeal from such sen-
tence to the circuit or corporation court, as the case may be. The
written request of the superintendent of the penitentiary shall have
precedence over any other request provided for in this section. When
the superintendent of the penitentiary shall require any such prisoner.
before being transferred from jail to the State convict road force, to
be examined by a physician, the fee for such examination, which shall
not exceed two dollars and fifty cents in any case, shall be paid by the
State in the manner provided by law for the payment of fees to physi-
cians for attending prisoners in jail.