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.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1899/1900 |
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Law Number | 535 |
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Chap. 535.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28,
1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 3,
1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the
code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 9, 1890, as amended
by an act approved March 30, 1887, as amended by an act approved May
21, 1887, to amend and re-enact section 12 of said chapter 61 of the code
of 1873, which is section 1196 of the code of Virginia, in relation to turn-
pike companies, approved March 5, 1896.
Approved February 26, 1900.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight, of chapter sixty-one, of the code of Virginia, of eighteen hundred
and sev enty-three, as amended by an act approved March ‘ninth, eighteen
hundred and eighty, as amended by an act approved March ‘thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act approved May
tw enty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and said section eight
and section twelve of said chapter sixty-one, in relation to turnpike
companies,.as amended by an act approved February three, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, as amended by an act approved February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by an act ap-
proved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and
re-enacted so as that said section eight and twelve shall read as follows:
$s 8. Any. person or persons alleging that a turnpike road or any
section thereof is out of repair may apply, by petition in writing, to
the court of any county, or the judge thereof in vacation, in which
said road may lie for a summons to three frecholders not living on
said road to meet on said section at a day specified and examine the
same, five days’ notice of such application to be given to the president
or one of the directors of said road, or, if it be a state road, to the
superintendent thereof, and the said court shall forthwith appoint such
views of said road, if upon the hearing of said petition the same shall
appear reasonable ‘and proper; and it shall be the duty of the judge of
the county court of any county in which there may be a turnpike road
upon which tolls are charged three times a year—to wit, at the April,
August, and December terms of his court, to appoint three such viewers
for each of such turnpike roads in his county who shall, at a time to be
specified in the order, examine the same, and be paid by the company
or the county, as provided in section eleven of this chapter, and all pro-
ceedings under said order of the court shall be as provided by sections
nine, ten, eleven, and twelve of this chapter, except that in case of any
turnpike road owned by the state the report of the viewers, if against
the road, shall be to the board of public works, and the facts certified
to the court, and the costs to be paid as the court may direct, and
except that on such last-mentioned report and on any report made by
viewers under this section, if made against the turnpike company, of
which the turnpike company shall be forthwith notified by the clerk
of the court or of the board of public works, as the case may be, the
said company may appeal to said county court, and said court may, on
such appeal, confirm, set aside, or recommit said report for further
proceedings, as if may deem advisable: provided, that the provisions
of this act shall not apply to the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike
road, nor to any turnpike road in the county of Frederick.
§ 12, All tolls upon any section so pronounced not to be in good
repair ehall be suspended from the time of the filing of the reports
of the viewers in the clerk’s office until the said section shall be put in
good repair and ascertaining so to be as follows: On the application
of the president or one of the directors of the company, a justice shall
issue his warrants for summoning the same freeholders, or in case of a
vacancy or vacancies, enough other disinterested freeholders to fill such
vacancy or vacancies, to be named in the warrants, to meet on the said
section at a certain specified time, which shall be as soon as convenient,
and ascertain whether the said section is in good repair or not, and the
proceedings upon such warrants shall be the same as are prescribed
in the preceding sections; the officers’ fees shall be paid by the com-
pany; but nothing contained in the preceding five sections shall be
construed to refer to any turnpike placed under the exclusive control
of the board of public works by the general assembly.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.