CHAPTER 100

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-10 of the Code of Virginia
of 1950 relating to Boards of Supervisors of certain counties.
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Approved March 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, § 15-10. Powers of Boards of certain counties.—The Boards
of Supervisors of counties:

(1) Adjoining and abutting any city, within or without this
State, having a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand
or more,

(2) Adjoining any county which adjoins and abuts any such
city and has a density of population of five hundred or more to the
square mile,

_ (3) Having a density of population of four hundred and
seventy-five or more to the square mile of highland, or

(4) Having within their boundaries any United States Marine
Corps Base,

Are hereby vested with the same powers and authority as the
councils of cities and towns by virtue of the Constitution of the
State of Virginia or the acts of the General Assembly passed in
pursuance thereof; provided, however, that with the exception of
such ordinances as are expressly authorized under §§ 46-200 to
46-206 and 46-212 no ordinance shall be enacted under authority
of this section regulating the equipment, operation, lighting or
speed of motor propelled vehicles operated on the public highways
of such county, unless the same be uniform with general laws of
this State regulating such equipment, operation, lighting or speed
and with the regulations of the State Highway Commission adopted
pursuant to such general laws, and provided further that nothing
in this section shall be construed to give such boards of super-
visors any power to control or exercise supervision over signs,
signals, marking and traffic lights on any roads constructed and
maintained by the State Highway Department * .

No law shall be enacted by the boards of supervisors under
authority of this section until after descriptive notice of intention
to propose the same for passage shall have been published once a
week for two successive weeks in some newspaper having a general
circulation in the county. After the enactment of any law or ordt
nance by the board of supervisors under authority of this section
no publication of the same shall be required, but no law or ordt-
nance enacted under such authority shall become effective until
thirty '(30) days after the enactment by the board of supervisors.
unless there be an emergency extsting, which shall be stated in the
enactment. Emergency enactments under authority of thts section
may he enacted without notice of intention.
But no emergency ordinance shall be in force for more than
sixty days unless reenacted in conformance with the provisions of
this act.

All laws or ordinances heretofore enacted by the board of
supervisors under authority of this section shall be deemed to have
been validly enacted, unless some provision of the Constitution of
Virginia or the Constitution of the United States has been violated
im such enactment.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its

passage.