Chap. 96.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, relating to powers conferred upon boards of supervisors,
so as to empower any such board to contract with any city adjoining or near the
county for fighting fires therein, to levy a special tax to defray expense thereof,
and to establish building lines and types of buildings in unincorporated towns
and villages; and so as to increase the maximum amount of fines, that may be
prescribed by boards of supervisors under this section, from $50.00 to $300.00.

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Approved March 2, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted, 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 animal:
in furtherance of the protection of the health of the county and not incon-
sistent with general statutes.

To adopt the necessary regulations to prevent the spread of conta-
gious diseases among persons or animals.

To provide against and prevent the pollution of water in their re-
spective 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 highways 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 conditions
upon which the same will be used for fighting fires in or upon privately
owned property. The board of supervisors of any county adjoining or
near any city having and maintaining fire-fighting equipment, shall have
authority to contract with any such city, upon such terms as the board
may deem proper, for fighting fires in such county, and to prescribe the
terms and conditions upon which fires may be fought on privately owned
property in the county, and shall have authority to raise funds with which
to pay for such services, by levying and collecting annually, at such rates
as such board may deem sufficient, a special tax upon the property in
such county, or in any magisterial district thereof, subject to local tax-
ation. 7
__ To prescribe building lines in villages and unincorporated towns, and
the types of buildings that may be erected therein. ] ,

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 three hundred 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 published 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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