CHAPTER 66

An Act to amend and reenact § 83-50.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to payment to certain towns for maintenance of streets.

[(S 145]
Approved March 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-50.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 33-50.2. The State Highway Commissioner of Virginia is hereby
authorized and empowered, subject to the approval of the State Highway
Commission, upon request of the governing bodies of incorporated towns
of less than thirty-five hundred inhabitants, according to the last United
States census for which population figures are available, to allocate and
pay to such towns for maintenance, improvement, construction or recon-
struction of streets which are not a part or an extension of the State high-
way primary system in the corporate limits of such towns * a per mile
sum * annually * equal to the average expenditures per mile for the next
preceding year by the Department of Highways in towns under 8,500 popu-
lation whose secondary roads are maintained by the Department, if such
streets and roads or portions thereof be maintained up to a standard satis-
factory to the State Highway Commission. * However, no such allocation
of payment shall be made by the State Highway Commission to any such
incorporated town, unless the portion of the street for which said allocation
1s made has an unrestricted right of way width of not less than thirty feet
and a hard surface width of not less than twelve feet; and any such street
hereafter established shall have a right of way width of not less than fifty
feet and a hard surface width of not less than twenty feet. Allocations
and payments made pursuant to this section to such incorporated towns
shall be paid by the State Highway Commission to the governing bodies
of such towns from allocations available from secondary funds. Plans and
specifications for construction and reconstruction of such streets shall be
approved by the State Highway Commissioner.

The funds allocated by the Commission shall be paid in equal sums in
each quarter of the fiscal year and no payment shall be made without the
approval of the State Highway Commission.