CHAPTER 88

An Act to validate the creation of the Appomattox River Water Authority,
as a public body, politic and corporate, and the appointment of its
members, and to prescribe their terms of office, and to provide for
the appointment of their successors, and to authorize the cities of
Petersburg and Colonial Heights and the counties of Prince George,
Chesterfield and Dinwiddie to contract with said Authority for a
supply of water.

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Approved February 20, 1962
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. All acts done and proceedings taken by the Councils of the Cities
of Petersburg and Colonial Heights and by the Boards of Supervisors
of the Counties of Prince George, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie for the
purpose of creating a water authority pursuant to the provisions of the
Virginia Water and Sewer Authorities Act (Chapter 577 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1950, as amended), including the adoption by the Councils
of the Cities of Petersburg and Colonial Heights and the Boards of
Supervisors of the Counties of Prince George, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie
of resolutions signifying their intention to create such water authority,
and the acts done and proceedings taken to hold hearings on such resolu-
tions, and the issuance by the State Corporation Commission of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia of a Certificate of Incorporation to such water
authority on November twenty-one, nineteen hundred and sixty, are hereby
legalized and validated, and said water authority shall be and is hereby
declared to be validly created and established, notwithstanding any de-
fects or irregularities in said acts or proceedings. Said water authority
shall constitute a water authority for the purposes of said Virginia Water
and Sewer Authorities Act having all the powers and duties granted
or imposed by said Act, and shall be known as the Appomattox River
Water Authority.

§ 2. The appointments of GEORGE F. BRASFIELD, FRED J.
SWEARINGEN, F. L. WYCHE, H. K. HAGERMAN and D. CARLETON
MAYES, to be members of said Authority, made by said proceedings are
hereby legalized and validated. The terms of office of said George F.
Brasfield, Fred J. Swearingen, F. L. Wyche, H. K. Hagerman and D.
Carleton Mayes shall end on the twenty-first day of November, nineteen
hundred sixty-four. Their successors shall be appointed for a term not
to exceed four years. The successor to said George F. Brasfield shall
be appointed by resolution adopted by the Council of the City of Peters-
burg, the successor to Fred J. Swearingen shall be appointed by resolution
adopted by the Council of the City of Colonial Heights, the successor to
F. L. Wyche shall be appointed by resolution adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of the County of Prince George, the successor to H. K. Hager-
man shall be appointed by resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Chesterfield, and the successor to D. Carleton Mayes
shall be appointed by resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Dinwiddie. Any vacancy in membership other than
by expiration of term shall be filled by the respective Board of Super-
visors or City Council by the appointment of a member to fill such vacancy
for the unexpired term only. Each member shall take the oath prescribed
o9y general law and serve until the end of his term or until his successor
shall have been duly appointed and qualified.

§ 3. The Cities of Petersburg and Colonial Heights acting by each
yf their respective Councils, and the Counties of Prince George, Chester-
ield and Dinwiddie acting by each of their respective Boards of Super-
7isors shall have authority to enter into a contract or contracts with
he Authority obligating the Authority to develop, provide, or make avail-
ible a supply of water, within or without the said political subdivisions
reating said Authority and providing for payment therefor in such
nanner and upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by
uch contract or contracts. Any such contract may run for a period
vhich shall not exceed forty years. Each of said Cities and Counties
s hereby authorized to do and perform any and all acts or things neces-
ary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform every such con-
ract, and to provide for the payment and discharge of their respective
bligations thereunder.

. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain devices for use on motor vehicles and rules and regulations
pertaining thereto.

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Approved February 20, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-299 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 46.1-299. (a) Every device intended and used to give a signal of
intention to turn or to stop a vehicle shall be so constructed and so installed
as to give a signal plainly visible in clear weather and under normal traffic
conditions from a distance of at least one hundred feet to the rear and one
hundred feet to the front of the vehicle, except that a stop signal need be
visible only to the rear; and provided that no front signal shall be required
on vehicles manufactured or assembled before January first, nineteen hun-
dred and forty-three.

(b) The Superintendent may adopt and enforce rules and regulations
not inconsistent with this and the preceding section governing the construc-
tion, location and operation of signal devices and the color of lights which
may be used in any such signal device, * provided that nothing contained
herein shall prohibit the requiring of an electrical or mechanical signal
device on any vehicle the driver of which is prevented by any reason from
giving the hand and arm signal required in § 46.1-217.

(c) Motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, when not in motion and
at the scene of a traffic hazard, may flash all four turn signals simultane-
ously to signal approaching motorists of the existing hazard.