CHAPTER 126

AN ACT to enact a new section 33-50.2 to the 1950 Code of Virginia
providing for payment of three hundred dollars per mile for
maintenance, improvement, construction and reconstruction of
streets in incorporated towns of less than thirty-five hundred
population or for the State Highway Commission of Virginia
to maintain, improve, construct or reconstruct streets in such

FOIUTNR,
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Approved March 9, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. The State Highway Commissioner of Virginia is hereby auth-
prized and empowered, subject to the approval of the State High-
wav Commission, upon request of the governing bodies of incor-
porated towns of less than thirty-five hundred inhabitants, accord-
ing to the last United States census for which population figures
are available, to allocate and pay to such towns for maintenance,
improvement, construction or reconstruction of streets which are
not a part or an extension of the State highway primary system
in the corporate limits of such 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 stand-
ard satisfactory to the State Highway Commission. However, no
such allocation of payment shall be made by the State Highway
Commission to any such incorporated town, unless the portion of
the street for which said allocation is made has an unrestricted
right of way width of not less than thirty feet and a hard surface
width of not less than twelve feet; and any such street hereafter
established shall have a right of way width of not less than fifty
feet and a hard surface width of not less than twenty feet. Alloca-
tions and payments made pursuant to this act to such incorporated
towns shall be paid by the State Highway Commission to the
governing bodies of such towns from allocations available from
secondary funds. Plans and specifications for construction and
reconstruction of such streets shall be approved by the State
Highway Commissioner.

The funds 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.

Any town receiving this fund shall make quarterly reports
accounting for all expenditures and certifying that none of the
money received has been expended for other than the maintenance,
improvement, construction and reconstruction of the streets in
such town.

If no request is made to the State Highway Commission of
Virginia by the governing body of any such town as herein pro-
vided for an allocation of three hundred dollars per mile, the State
Highway Commissioner is authorized and empowered, subject to
the approval of the State Highway Commission, to maintain, im-
prove, construct and reconstruct all streets in such incorporated
town having an unrestricted right of way width of not less than
thirty feet and a hard surface width of not less than twelve feet and
any such streets hereinafter established by said incorporated town
having a right of way width of not less than fifty feet and a hard
surface width of not less than twenty feet. Allocations and pay-
ments made pursuant to this act to such incorporated towns shall
be paid by the State Highway Commission to the governing bodies
of such towns from allocations available from secondary funds;
and where the maintenance, improvement, construction and re-
construction is done by the Department of Highways, the cost
thereof shall be taken from said secondary funds.