CHAPTER 259

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-32, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to construction districts and allocation o f funds for
the primary system.

[(S 104]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-32, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 33-32. Construction districts; allocation of funds.—The present
division of the State into not less than eight construction districts shall
continue in effect. Work shall be continued in each district, except as
herein provided. * All funds allocated to the primary system from existing
sources of revenue shall be, as nearly as possible, apportioned among the
various construction districts in an equitable manner taking into account
such factors as area, population and road mileage. Funds allocated from
new sources of revenue shall be apportioned among the various construc-
tion districts entirely on the basis of the needs of each district in relation
to the needs of the State as a whole for the construction of the arterial
network of highways created under § 33-23.1.

The Commission shall * program the primary construction activities of
each district in a manner which will insure the completion of the arterial
network of highways by 1975 and, to the extent that the funds from new
sources of revenue are insufficient to finance the program, shall make
available the necessary funds from existing sources of revenue to finance
the program.

The Commission shall give preference to projects on which the right
of way is donated.

The funds for each year shall, as far as possible, be allotted prior to
the commencement of the fiscal year and public announcement made of
such allotment, but the Commission shall not approve such allotment
until after public hearing, at which political subdivisions of the State and
interested citizens may be heard.

In any case where any allotment of funds is made under this section
to any county all or a part of which subsequently is incorporated as or
into a city or town such allocation shall not be impaired thereby and the
funds so allocated shall be expended as if such county or any part thereof
had never become an incorporated city, but such city shall not be eligible
to receive funds as a city during the same year it receives the funds al-
located as a county or as any part of a county.

For the purpose of this section “new sources of revenue’ shall include
all revenue received from the increase in existing taxes or levies as well as
the revenue from new taxes or levies.