Chap. 317.——An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled ‘an act
to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in,
the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstructon, of
certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish
a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the
rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State
Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State
Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and
allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties
for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts
of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 31, 1932, as heretofore amended,
so as to make the provisions of the said act applicable to certain towns.

[S B 220]
Approved March 26, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
nine of an act entitled “an act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and
to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improve-
ment, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads,
causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a
secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe
the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities,
the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission,
and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local
levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act:
to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provi-
sions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict here-
with,” approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 9. The State Highway Commissioner, subject to the ap-
proval of the State Highway Commission shall select such streets and
roads, or portions thereof, in incorporated towns and cities having more
than thirty-five hundred (3500) inhabitants according to the census of
nineteen hundred and twenty, and in all towns situate within one mile
of the corporate limits of a city of the first class and having a popula-
tion in excess of thirty-five hundred (3500) inhabitants according to
the census of nineteen hundred and thirty, and in all cities operating
under a charter designating them as cities of the first class notwith-
standing the number of inhabitants, and in all towns having a popula-
tion in excess of thirty-five hundred (3500) inhabitants according to
the last preceding United States census through which pass any primary
road in the State highway system directly connecting and over which
moves a substantial portion of the traffic between two cities of the
State each of which has a population in excess of forty thousand
(40,000) inhabitants according to the said census, as may, in his judg-
ment, be best for the handling of traffic in such towns and cities, from
or to any road in the State highway system, and from time to time
make such changes in the selection thereof as may be reasonable and
proper. If such streets and roads, or portions thereof, in such towns
or cities so selected by the State Highway Commissioner shall, in the
opinion of the State Highway Commission, be maintained up to the
standard of maintenance of the State highway system adjoining such
town or city, the State Highway Commissioner shall cause to be paid
to such town or city, to be used by it in the maintenance and improve-
ment, including construction and reconstruction, of streets, roads and
bridges within such town or city, subject to the approval of the State
Highway Commission, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each year
for each mile of such streets and roads, or portions thereof, selected
by the State Highway Commissioner under the provisions of this section
within such town or city, one-third thereof to be paid from State
highway maintenance funds and the remaining two-thirds thereof to be
paid from State highway construction funds allocated to the construc-
tion district in which such town or city is located. In addition thereto,
the State Highway Commissioner is authorized and directed, whenever
in the opinion of the State Highway Commission it is advisable that
any such street or road, or portion thereof, including bridges in any
such town or city, selected by the State Highway Commissioner under
the provisions of this section, be constructed or reconstructed, to pay,
or cause to be paid, to such town or city on account of such construc-
tion or reconstruction, from State highway construction funds allocated
to the construction district in which such town or city is located, such
sum as the State Highway Commission may determine, not to exceed
five hundred dollars annually for each mile of such streets and roads,
or portions thereof, selected by the State Highway Commissioner under
the provisions of this section, within such town or city, provided such
construction or reconstruction shall be done in accordance with plans
and specifications approved by the State Highway Commissioner.