Chap. 266.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter 415, Acts 1932, approved March 31, 1932, relating to the establishment
of the secondary system of State highways and providing for the maintenance
and improvement thereof, so as to provide additional notice to the public and to
the several boards of supervisors of certain hearings and of certain actions by
the Department of Highways. [H B 297]

Approved March 19, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
two of chapter four hundred and fifteen of the Acts of nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-
two, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 2. The control, supervision, management and jurisdiction
over the secondary system of State highways shall from and after July
first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be vested in the Department of
Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the maintenance and
improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of such second-
ary system of State highways shall be by the State under the supervision of
the State Highway Commissioner. The boards of supervisors of the
several counties and the county road board or county road commission of
any county operating under a county road board or county road commis-
sion shall, from and after such date, be relieved of control, supervision,
management and jurisdiction over such public roads, causeways, bridges,
landings and wharves, constituting the secondary system of State high-
ways.

At least once in each calendar year after January first, nineteen
hundred and thirty-three, the representative of the Department of High-
ways in charge of such secondary system of State highways in each
county or some representative of said department designated by the State
Highway Commissioner shall meet with the board of supervisors of each
such county at a regular or special meeting of said board, notice of which
meeting shall be published in a newspaper, published in or having a
general circulation in said county once a week for two successive weeks,
and posted by the county clerk at the front door of the courthouse of
such county ten days before such meeting, and there discuss and advise
with said board of supervisors and the citizens present plans and pro-
posals for the maintenance and improvement, including construction and
reconstruction, of such secondary system of State highways in such
county, and towns as were maintained by the boards of supervisors
before the passage of this act. After which discussion each board of
supervisors shall make written recommendations to the Department of
Highways as to the expenditure of funds for such work in such county
and towns; and the Department of Highways shall observe and follow
such recommendations in so far as they are compatible with the depart-
ment’s general plans and available funds will permit, having due regard
to the maintenance and improvement of all existing roads in said county
and towns in said secondary system and shall notify the several boards of
supervisors, respectively, of its changes, if any, in the recommendations
so made to it, in writing. Upon receipt of the plans approved hv the
Department of Highways the same shall be made a public document, and
shall be followed unless timely notice of any changes is given the Beard
of Supervisors in each case.

Except as otherwise provided in this act, the State Highway Com-
mission shall be vested with the same powers, control and jurisdiction
over the secondary system of State highways in the several counties and
towns of the State, and such additions as may be made from time to time,
as is now vested in the boards of supervisors of the several counties or
in the county road board or county road commission in any county now
operating under a county road board or county road commission and
in addition thereto shall be vested with the same power, authority and
control as to the secondary system of State highways as vested in the
said commission in connection with the State highway system.