Chap. 117.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter 403, Acts of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the crea-
tion of the State Highway Commission and the office of State Highway Com-
missioner, and to the powers, functions and duties thereof, and providing for
certain construction districts and for the allocation of highway funds, said
section relating to construction districts and allocation of funds. [S B 82]

Approved March 6, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
seven, as heretofore amended, of chapter four hundred and three of the
Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, ap-
proved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 7. Construction Districts; Allocation of Funds.—The
Commission shall divide the State into not less than eight construction
districts. Work in each of the construction districts shall be started as
simultaneously as practicable, and continued in each district, except as
herein provided. The State Highway Commission shall annually, and as
nearly as possible, make an equitable apportionment among the various
construction districts, of the construction funds to become available
during the succeeding fiscal year; provided, however, that the Commis-
sion shall each year, during the present war apply out of the funds from
the motor fuel tax, Federal or other construction funds, two million
dollars, to such construction project in the several construction districts
as the Commission may deem best for the interests of the State ; provided,
further, that the Commission shall, as soon after the end of the present
war as practicable, reimburse, from regular construction funds, those
districts which during the period of the present war, failed to receive
their pro-rata share of the two million dollar fund.

The Commission shall each year, apply out of the funds from the
motor fuel tax, Federal or other construction funds, two million dollars,
to construction project in the several construction districts as the Com-
mission may deem best for the interests of the State, such amount to be
applied in the several construction districts on the basis of the uncom-
pleted mileage in the primary system of the State highways in the respec-
tive districts. | : | , -

The funds for each year shall, as far as. possible, be allotted prior to
the commencement of the fiscal year, and public announcement made of
such allotment, but the Commission sha!l not approve such allotment
until after public hearing, at which political subdivisions of the State and
interested citizens may be heard, and, further, the Commission shall give
preference to projects on which the right of way is donated.