CHAPTER 257

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 38-48.1 and 88-49 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the allocation of funds to the Secondary System and to the
counties withdrawn therefrom and the apportionment of such funds
to the counties.

[(S 102]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 33-48.1 and 33-49 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 33-48.1. Apportionment of * funds among counties in secondary
system.— * All funds allocated to the secondary system from existing
sources of revenue shall be, as nearly as possible, apportioned among the
counties in the secondary system in an equitable manner, taking into
recount such factors as area, population, road mileage and vehicular
fravel.

Those funds allocated to the secondary system from new sources
of revenue shall be apportioned among the counties in the secondary
system entirely on the basis of the needs of each county in relation to the
zeeds of the system as a whole.

For the purpose of this section “new sources of revenue” shall in-
ude all revenue received from the increase in existing taxes or levies as
vell as the revenue from new taxes or levies.

§ 33-49. * Funds for system. —The State Highway Commission shall
Wocate during each year from * all funds made available for highway pur-
yoses such sum * as it may deem reasonable and necessary for the best
nterests of the several counties of the State and of the State at large to
be expended * in the maintenance and improvement, including construction
and reconstruction of the secondary system of State highways; provided,
however, that the funds spent upon the secondary system of highways for
maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction,
shall not be less than thirty-three per centum of * all funds available to
the State Highway Commission, exclusive of any federal funds made
available for the Interstate System, i in any one fiscal year * ; and provided
further that * the Highway Commission is authorized to lower the mint-
mum if substantial reduction in the mileage of the secondary system
results from incorporation, annexation or merger of areas which are now
in the secondary system.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
Commission shall, before apportioning secondary funds derived from new
sources of revenue to the counties in the secondary system, pay to the
counties which have withdrawn their roads from the secondary system a
portion of such new revenue equal to the percentage such counties received
of the total motor fuel tax for the preceding fiscal year.