CHAPTER 664

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to powers of boards of supervisors. CH 663]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-8. In addition to the powers conferred by other sections, the
board of supervisors of every county shall have power:
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_ (1) To adopt quarantine regulations affecting both persons and
animals in furtherance of the protection of the health of the county and
not inconsistent with general statutes.

_ (2) To adopt the necessary regulations to prevent the spread of con-
tagious diseases among persons or animals.

(3) To provide against and prevent the pollution of water in their
respective counties whereby it is rendered dangerous to the health or lives
of persons residing in the county.

(4) 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.

(5) To adopt such measures as they may deem expedient to secure
and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of
oe respective counties, not inconsistent with the general laws of this

(6) To prescribe building lines in villages and unincorporated towns
and the types of buildings that may be erected therein.

(7) To prohibit minors who are not attended by their parents from
frequenting or being in public places whether or not on private property
after such hours of the night as the governing body deems proper.

(8) To prohibit loitering in, upon or around any public place whether
or not on private property.

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 pro-
ceedings 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
jl be prescribed in any case such imprisonment shall not exceed thirty

ays.

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, and no such ordinance or by-law shall become
effective until after it shall have been published in full once a week for
two successive weeks in a like newspaper.

The above provisions of this section shall apply to ordinances other
than those hereinafter set forth. No county governing body shall adopt
or amend any ordinance imposing a county capitation tax, county motor
vehicle license tax, county license tax on professions or businesses, includ-
ing wholesale merchants, or county tax on amusements, except under the
conditions hereinafter set forth, and any such ordinance adopted without
compliance with such conditions shall be void and of no effect:

(a) Any such ordinance may only be introduced at a regular meet-
ing of the board and may not be adopted prior to the second regular meet-
ing following introduction and only then if not less than sixty days have
elapsed between introduction and adoption; .

(b) The proposed ordinance shall be published once a week for four
successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, or if there be
none such, in a newspaper having general circulation in the county; and

(c) The proposed ordinance shall be posted at the front door of the
county courthouse and at each post office in the county.