CHAPTER 583

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 38-252 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the incidental powers of the State Highway Commission under the
State Revenue Bond Act, so as to provide for the employment of
Project Guards.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-252 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
to read as follows: —

§ 33-252. Incidental powers of the Commission.—The Commission

may make and enter into all contracts or agreements necessary or 1n-
cidental to the execution of its powers under this article and may employ
engineering, architectural and construction experts and inspectors, brokers
and such other employees as may be deemed necessary, who shall be paid
such compensation as may be provided in accordance with law. All such
compensation and all expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of
this article shall be paid solely from funds provided under the authority
of this article and no liability or obligation shall be incurred hereunder
beyond the extent to which money shall have been provided under the
authority of this article. The Commission may exercise any powers
which are necessary or convenient for the execution of its powers under
this article.
_ _ The Commission shall maintain and keep in good condition and re-
pair, or cause to be maintained and kept in good condition and repair,
the projects authorized under this article, when acquired or constructed
and opened to traffic, including any project or part thereof that may
include portions of existing streets or roads within a county, municipality
or other political subdivision.

The Commission is authorized and empowered to establish rules and
regulations for the use of any one or more of the projects defined in
§ 33-228, as amended, including reasonable rules and regulations relating
to (a) maximum and minimum speed limits applicable to motor vehicles
using such project, any other provision of law to the contrary notwith-
standing; (b) the types, kinds and sizes of vehicles which may use such
projects; (c) the nature, size, type of materials or substances which shall
not be transported over such project, and (d) such other matters as may
be necessary or expedient in the interest of public safety with respect to
the use of such project ; provided, however, that as to project (j) authorized
under the terms of § 33-228, the provisions of (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this
paragraph shall not apply to existing streets within a municipality and
embraced within said project, except as may be otherwise agreed upon by
the Commission and the municipality.

The projects acquired or constructed under this article may be policed
in whole or in part by officers of the Department of State Police even
though all or some portions of any such projects lie within the corporate
limits of a municipality or other political subdivision. Such officers shall
be under the exclusive control and direction of the Superintendent of State
Police, and shall be responsible for the preservation of public peace, pre-
vention of crime, apprehension of criminals, protection of the rights of
persons and property, and enforcement of the laws of the Commonwealth,
and rules and regulations enacted pursuant thereto, within the limits of
any such projects. All other police officers of the Commonwealth and of
each county, city, town or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth
through which any project, or portion thereof, extends shall have the same
powers and jurisdiction within the limits of such projects as they have
beyond such limits and shall have access to the projects at any time for the
purpose of exercising such powers and jurisdiction.

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The Commission is authorized and empowered to employ and appoint
“Project Guards” for the purpose of protecting the projects and to enforce
the rules and regulations of the Commission, except those paralleling
State law, established for the use of such projects. Such Guards may issue
summons to appear or arrest on view without warrant and conduct before
the nearest officer authorized by law to admit to bail, any person violating,
within or upon the projects, any such rule or regulation. The provisions
of §§ 46-198 and 46-194 of the Code shall apply mutatis mutandis to the
issuance of summons or arrests without warrants pursuant to this section.

The violation of any rule or regulation adopted by the Commission
pursuant to the authority hereby granted shall be punishable as follows:
If such violation would have been a violation of law if committed on any
public road, street or highway in the county, city or town in which such
violation occurred, it shall be punishable in the same manner as if it had
been committed on such public road, street or highway; otherwise it shall
be punishable as a misdemeanor.

The powers and duties of the Commission hereinabove enumerated in
this article shall not be construed as a limitation of the general powers or
duties of the Commission. The Commission, in addition to the powers and
duties enumerated in this article, shall do and perform any and all things
and acts necessary in the construction or acquisition, maintenance and
operation of any project to be constructed or acquired under the pro-
visions of this article, to the end that such project or projects may become
and be operated free of tolls as early as possible and practicable, subject
only to the express limitations of this article and the limitations of other
laws and constitutional provisions applicable thereto.