CHAP. 610.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 980, chapter
43 of the code of Virginia in relation to county roads.

Approved March 8, 1892,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section nine hundred and eighty, chapter forty-three
of the code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 980. Every person liable to road duty shall, either in
person or by a sufficient substitute, when notified by the
proper surveyor, his deputy or agent, attend with proper
tools and work the roads on such days as the surveyor,
his deputy or agent shall direct. For every day on which
there may be a failure, a fine of seventy-five cents shall
be paid to the surveyor within thirty days thereafter by
the person in default, if of full age, or if an infant, by
his parent or guardian. If the fine be not paid, the sur-
veyor shall make out a ticket against the delinquent party
for the amount thereof, with an addition of twenty-five
cents asa penalty for each day of such failure, which
ticket shall be collected by such surveyor or his deputy,
and such surveyor or his deputy having charge of the col-
lection of such fine may distrain therefor or otherwise
collect the same in the mode prescribed by law for the
collection of taxes and county levies, with the right to
collect the same fees or commissions as is now allowed to
sheriffs on the collection of executions; in addition thereto
said surveyor or his deputy shall account for all fines col-
lected by him, retaining the costs aforesaid: provided,
however, that such delinquent may, after notice to such
surveyor or his deputy, apply to the county court or judge
thereof, in vacation, or to the supervisor of his district,
and for good cause shown have said fine remitted; or such
delinquent may, at any time within thirty days after said
ticket is so made out against him, discharge said fine by
labor upon the roads of his precinct, and such surveyor
or his deputy shall return to the board of supervisors, at
their February meeting in each year, a list of all fines so
collected, and a list of all delinquents, which list shall be
passed upon by the board, and for such amount thereof
as may not be approved by the said board, such surveyor
or his deputy, as the case may be, shall be liable, and
shall forthwith pay the same to be applied to working the
roads in such surveyor’s district: provided, however, this
act shall not apply to any county until the board of super-
vors shall adopt the same.