Chap. 124.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia,

as heretofore amended, relating to powers of local nature conferred on boards

of supervisors. [(H B 190]
Approved March 5, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 2743. In addition to the powers conferred by other
statutes, the board of supervisors of every county shall have power:

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 trespassing by persons, animals, and fowls; and to
prevent animals from trespassing and running at large upon the public
highways, whether such highwavs 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.

To provide for the purchase, operation, manning and maintenance
of suitable equipment for fighting fires in or upon the property of
the county and its inhabitants, and to prescribe the terms and con-
ditions upon which the same will be used for fighting fires in or upon
privately owned property.

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 violations thereof, which shall be enforced
by proceedings before a trial justice in like manner and with like
right of appeal as if such violations 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-law shall be passed until after notice of
an intention to propose the same for passage shall have been pub-
lished once a week for two successive weeks prior to its passage in
some newspaper published in the county, and if there be none such,
in some newspaper published in an adjoining county or a nearby city
and having a general circulation 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 once a week for two successive weeks in
a like newspaper.

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