Chap. 508.—An ACT to provide a county road board for the county of Princess
Anne; to define its jurisdiction, duties and liabilities; to provide for com-
pensation to its members and employees; and to repeal chapter 49 of the
acts of assembly of 1923, and chapters 196, 238 and 346 of the acts of assem-
bly of 1926, and to abolish all boards, offices and commissions created thereby,
all of which relate to road boards and commissions in said county. [H B 88]

Approved March 28, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Princess Anne county shall hold regular meet-
ings at the county courthouse on the third Monday of each month, and
may hold special road meetings at such other times as a majority of
the hoard may deem necessary, provided however, that compensation
shall not be allowed for more than twenty meetings in any one year.
The said board may employ a clerk to be present at its meetings, or
at such of them as the board may deem necessary, whose duty shall
be to keep a record of all the proceedings of the board and whose com-
pensation shall be ten dollars per diem for each day’s attendance on
meetings of the board.

The said board may appoint a county road engineer (who shall be
a competent civil engineer, certified and licensed as a civil engineer by
the State board of Virginia),-who shall perform such duties as shall
be prescribed and contracted for by the board, and who shall attend
each meeting, prescribed by this act, of the board. and whose salary
shall he fixed bv said board, not to exceed thirty-five hundred dollars
per annum. Such engineer shall be removable by said board at its
pleasure.

Said engineer shall personally own his means of road transporta-
tion, but for the upkeep and maintenance of such means of transporta-
tion in performing the duties of ‘his employment, he shall be allowed a
sum not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum. And the board
may appoint or employ or authorize the appointment or employment
of such additional engineers in case of an emergency, as well as over-
seers, agents, servants. laborers, and other subordinates as may be
necessary for the proper performance and execution of the duties im-
posed by this act.

The said engineer shall be vested with full police powers wherein
matters pertaining to the abuse, or misuse of all county roads are con-
cerned, said abuse or misuse to cover the use ‘of certain classes of
tractors or other vehicles destructive to the surface of said roads. Im-
proper drainage, destruction or injury to road equipment, or bridges,
the cutting of drains, stoppage of drainage, et cetera.
The board shall also have authority to employ counsel when the
same 1s rendered necessary to protect the public interest incident to
this work under this act. Th2 terms, duties and compensation of its
respective appointees and employees shall be as prescribed by it, and
their compensation shall be a reasonable one, and any and all of them
shall be removable at its pleasure for inefficiency or other good cause.

It shall be the duty of said board or three of them, to go over the
public roads and bridges of said county at least once during the months
of January and July of each year, and to keep itself informed by means
of personal investigation, or otherwise, as to the condition of the pub-
lic roads and bridges of said county, the manner in which they are
worked and kept in order, and whether or not its appointees and em-
plovees, and other subordinates have performed their duties.

All work of whatever nature, except emergency cases, shall he let to
the lowest bidder, unless all of the bids are deemed too high by the
board, then, if the board decides that the best interest of the county
will be served by doing such work with its own equipment, it shall file
all bids received on such piece of work, and shall keep a record of the
costs of their so doing said work to determine what economies or ex-
cess cost finally accrued.

The board shall annually, at its meeting in January, make in writ-
ing a detailed report of its year’s work, and expenditures, and have
same published once in a newspaper of general circulation tn the
county and a copy posted at the front door of the courthouse of said
county.

No member of the board, or engineer or other person appointed or
employed by the board shall become pecuniarily interested, directly or
indirectly in any contract or work whatever nature or in the profits of
any contract or work whatever nature made by or with any person.
firm or corporation that may contract for or otherwise do work on,
or the furnishing of material, equipment or supplies for roads or
bridges in said county; and if this provision is violated the member
or members of said board of supervisors or engineer or other person
so violating the same shall by means of an action or motion brought
within one year thereafter in the circuit court of said county be liable
to the county for a sum of money equal to double the amount of his
interest aforesaid. .

2. The compensation of the clerk and the members of said board
and to the road superintendent or engineer, as well as all other neces-
sary expenses of the board shall be paid out of the county levy; all
road funds raised by district levies shall be expended in the respective
districts in which such funds are raised.

3. Be it further enacted that chapter forty-nine of the acts of
assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-three and chapters one hun-
dred and ninety-six, two hundred and thirty-eight and three hundred
and forty-six of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred and twentv-
six, all of which relate to road boards and commissions for the several
districts in the county of Princess Anne, be and the same are hereby
repealed, and all officers, boards and commissions created or estab-
lished by such acts or either or any of them are hereby abolished and
all such boards, offices and commnssions declared to be vacant.