CHAPTER 324

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-109.1 of the Code of Virginia, which
was enacted as § 53-109, as amended, of the Code of Virginia re-
lating to State convict road force and payments for services. 190)

Approved March 138, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58-109.1 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted as
§ 58-109, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted
as follows: .

§ 53-109.1. The State Highway Commission shall pay to the Di-
rector monthly for the hours convicts are employed on the State High-
way primary system and secondary system and work incidental thereto,
including relocation and moving of convict road camps, for each hour
such convict is so employed not more than the local hourly rate for
similar type of labor in the area in which such convicts are employed and
not less than * seventy-five per cent of such local hourly rate for sim-
ilar type of labor in the area where such convicts are employed as
evidenced by the payrolls of the Department of Highways in such area.
Such monthly payment by the Commission to the Director shall be made
not later than the fifteenth day of the succeeding month after the work
or labor has been performed for the Commission, provided, however,
that the State Highway Commission shall allocate the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars annually to the Director for the State convict
road force to be used as an advance against said monthly payments.

In addition to the payments as hereinbefore provided, the State
Highway Commission shall pay to the Director from the special motor
vehicle fuel tax fund such sums as are necessary for capital outlay proj-
ects. Such capital outlay projects shall include the cost of purchase of
permanent camp sites, construction of buildings and other improve-
ments which are necessary for the operation of the camps, and the care
and handling of the prisoners confined therein, subject to the approval
of the State Highway Commission. Any land so acquired for such
Buildings and improvements shall be acquired by the State Highway
Commission and title to such lands and improvements shall vest in the
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