An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1958 |
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Law Number | 30 |
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CHAPTER 30
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3-220 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
composition of the State Certified Seed Commission. 8 97)
Approved February 12, 1958
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
by That § 3-220 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:
§ 3-220. The commission known as the State Certified Seed Commis-
sion, hereinafter in this article sometimes called the “Commission”, is
continued and is hereby established as a unit of and within the Virginia
Agricultural Extension Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, the Director of
the Agricultural Experiment Station at Blacksburg, the Director of such
Extension Division, and the Head of the Agronomy Department, of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, shall * serve, ex officio, as members of the
Commission and in addition one member of the Virginia Seedsmen’s As-
sociation and one member of the Virginia Crop Improvement Association
shall be appointed by the Governor. Such appointments may be made from,
but shall not be limited to, lists of three names nominated by each such
Association. Members shall serve on the Commission for terms of three
years commencing with the date of appointment. The Governor's appotnt-
ments shall be made within thirty days of the occurrence of any vacancy. A
majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum. One
of * the members shall be elected chairman.
CHAPTER 30
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3-220 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
composition of the State Certified Seed Commission. rs 97)
Approved February 12, 1958
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
La That § 3-220 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:
§ 3-220. The commission known as the State Certified Seed Commis-
sion, hereinafter in this article sometimes called the “Commission”, is
continued and is hereby established as a unit of and within the Virginia
Agricultural Extension Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, the Director of
the Agricultural Experiment Station at Blacksburg, the Director of such
Extension Division, and the Head of the Agronomy Department, of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, shall * serve, ex officio, as members of the
Commission and in addition one member of the Virginia Seedsmen’s As-
sociation and one member of the Virginia Crop Improvement Association
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(e) To prevent any obstruction of or encroachment over, under or in
any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place, provide penalties for
maintaining any such obstruction, or encroachment; remove the same and
charge the cost thereof to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of
the property so obstructing or encroaching, and collect the sum charged
in any manner provided by law for the collection of taxes; require the
owner or owners or the occupant or occupants of the property so ob-
structing or encroaching to remove the same; pending such removal charge
the owner or owners of the property so obstructing or encroaching com-
pensation for the use of such portion of the street, alley, sidewalk or other
public place obstructed or encroached upon the equivalent of what would
the tax upon the land so occupied if it were owned by the owner or
owners of the property so obstructing or encroaching, and, if such re-
moval shall not be made within the time ordered, impose penalties for each
and every day that such obstruction or encroachment is allowed to continue
thereafter; authorize encroachments upon streets, alleys, sidewalks or
other public places, subject to such terms and conditions as the council
may prescribe, but such authorization shall not relieve the owner or
owners, occupant or occupants of the property encroaching, of any liabil-
ity for negligence on account of such encroachment; and recover possession
of any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place or any other property
of the City by suit or action in ejectment.
(f) To determine and designate the route and grade of any railroad
to be hereafter laid in said city; to restrain and regulate the rate of
speed of locomotive engines and of cars upon railroads in said city; to
grant franchises to railroads and other corporations through, along, and
under the streets of said city upon such conditions as the council may
determine; and to require the establishment of all necessary railroad
crossings within said city. In the event, however, the city and the rail-
road company involved are unable to agree on the necessity for the con-
struction of any underpass or overpass structure, or the plans and speci-
fications for and method or manner of construction thereof, or the portion
of the work, if any, to be done and the share of the cost of such project,
if any, to be borne by each, § 56-366.2 of the Code of Virginia of 1950,
as amended, shall apply.
(g) To regulate the operation of motor vehicles and exercise control
over traffic in the streets and parking areas of the City and provide
penalties for the violation of such regulations, provided that ordinances
or administrative regulations adopted by virtue of this subsection shall
not be inconsistent with the provisions of Title 46, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia of 1950. All fines imposed for the violation of such ordi-
nances and regulations shall be paid into the City treasury.
(h) To regulate, in the interest of public health, the production,
preparation, distribution, sale and possession of milk, other beverages
and foods for human consumption, and the places in which they are pro-
duced, prepared, distributed, sold, served or stored; regulate the con-
struction, installation, maintenance and condition of all water and sewer
pipes, connections, toilets, water closets and plumbing fixtures of all
kinds, regulate the construction and use of septic tanks and dry closets,
where sewers are not available, and the sanitation of swimming pools
and lakes; provide for the removal thereof; compel the use of sewers, the
connection of abutting premises therewith, and the installation in such
premises of suitable sanitary facilities; regulate or prohibit connections
to and the use of sewers; provide for the quarantine of any person af-
flicted with a contagious or infectious disease, and for the removal of
such person to a hospital or ward specially designated for contagious or
infectious diseases; inspect and prescribe reasonable rules and regulations,
in the interest of public health, with respect to private hospitals, sana-