Chap. 499.—An ACT to authorize and empower the State Highway Commission
of i poe to pay to cities and incorporated towns having a population of
3500 of more for maintenance, improvement, construction or reconstruction of
all streets within the corporate limits which are not a part or extensions of
the State highway Primary system, the sum of three hundred dollars per mile
annually, provided, such streets meet certain specifications as to width of
right of way and hard surface; and to provide for allocation for such expendi-
ture from funds available for maintenance and construction of the State highway
primary system; that the amount herein prescribed per mile shall increase or de-
crease annually in the same ratio that such available primary funds for all
highway purposes shall increase or decrease relative to the fiscal year endin;
June 30, 1948. {Ss 204]

Approved April 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the State Highway Commission of Virginia is authorized
and empowered to allocate and pay to all cities and incorporated towns
having a population thirty-five hundred or more according to the last
United States census for maintenance, improvement, construction or re-
construction of streets which are not a part or an extension of the State
highway primary system in the corporate limits of such cities and incorp-
orated towns, the sum of three hundred dollars per mile annually except
as hereinafter provided, if such streets and roads or portions thereof be
maintained up to a standard satisfactory to the State Highway Commis-
sion. However, no such allocation of payment shall be made by the State
Highway Commission to any such city or incorporated town, unless
such street heretofore constructed has an unrestricted right of way width
of not less than forty feet and a hard surface width of not less than
twenty feet; and any such street hereafter constructed, shall have an un-
restricted right of way width of not less than fifty feet and a hard
surface width of not less than thirty feet. Allocations and payments
made pursuant to this act to such cities and incorporated towns, shall
be paid by the State Highway Commission to the governing bodies
of such cities and towns from funds available for maintenance and con-
struction of the State highway primary system; provided, however, that
the fund from which any such allocations are made shall not be consti-
tuted to any extent of funds, reversions, transfers, allocations or ap-
propriations available for the secondary system of highways, to the end
that all allocations under this act shall be paid wholly from funds available
for the primary system of highways and no part of said funds shall be
derived at the expense of the secondary highway funds, or reduce the
ratio of the secondary highway funds to all funds available for all
highway purposes below said ratio for the year ending June thirty,
nineteen hundred forty-seven. Provided, however, that the amount of
three hundred dollars herein provided to be allocated annually for main-
tenance, improvement, construction and reconstruction of streets in
such cities and incorporated towns shall increase or decrease annually
in the same ratio that such available funds from the State highway
primary system for all highway purposes shall increase or decrease
relative to the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred forty-
eight. Plans and specifications for construction and reconstruction shall
be approved by the State Highway Commissioner.

The fund allocated by the Commission shall be paid in equal sums
in each quarter of the fiscal year, and no payment shall be made without
the approval of the State Highway Commission.

The city or town receiving this fund will be required to make
quarterly reports accounting for all expenditures and certifying that
none of the money received has been expended for other than the main-
tenance, improvement, construction or reconstruction of the streets in
such city or town.