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 | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 19 |
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Law Body
Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend the road law in the county of Buckingham.
Approved December 22, 1897.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
of an act entitled an act for working, keeping in repair, and building
the roads and bridges in Buckingham county, approved March fourth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as tc
read as follows:
§5. Road superintendents, their appointment and duties.—There shal.
be appointed by the judge of the county court a road superintendent for
every election district, who shall be a resident and voter thereof, anc
whose duty it shall be to superintend and direct the repairs and keeping
in order and building all county roads and bridges within his electior
district in such manner and under such regulations and restrictions a:
may be prescribed by the judge of the county court, and the said judge
is hereby authorized to make all necessary appropriationsfor the purpose:
herein mentioned, payable, in his diseretion, out of the county levy or
the district road fund.
$8. Pay of road superintendents, when and by whom fixed.—The
judge of the county court shall determine the amount of compensation
(aceording to the plans he shall adopt) whieh each superintendent shall
be entitled to receive per annum, taking into consideration, in fixing the
compensation, the reasonable amount of labor and supervision to be
performed in each district. Such compensation shall be fixed at least
thirty days prior to his appointment, and shall not be increased or
diminished during his time of office unless the appropriation or expend1-
ture for roads and bridges in his distriet be increased or diminished
during his term, and shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars
for any one vear for anv one district, such compensation to be fixed at
such amounts in the different districts as the county judge may think
proper, and be allowed to the said superintendents as their salaries, or,
in his discretion, the county judge may allow them a per diem not to
exceed one dollar for each day they are actually emploved,
Independent section. —On application to the county Judge for the open-
ing of new roads or for making private roads, public roads, or for
ehanging roads, the said judge may adopt such portions of the genera]
road law of the state as may be necessary to effect and accomplish said
objects.
2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.