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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1899/1900 |
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Law Number | 1085 |
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Chap. 1085.—An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public
roads of Sussex county.
Approved March 7, 1900.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of Sussex county, subject to the approval of the county
court of said county shall, from time to time, divide the said county
Into road districts, each containing one or more magisterial districts,
and subject to the approval of said court, shall appoint at their annual
meeting on the fourth Monday in Julv in each year, or as soon there-
after as is practicable, a road surveyor for each said road district, to
hold office for one year, who shall be a resident and voter of said district,
and whose duty it shall be to superintend and direct the repairs and
keeping m order of all roads and bridges within his said district, in
such manner and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the
board of supervisors of his county.
2. Said supervisors shall qualify at the first term of the county court
after his appointment, and each of them shall enter into and acknowledge
a bond before the said court, with surety to be approved by said court,
in a penalty of one thousand dollars, and failure to qualify on or before
the second term of the county court of said county after his appointment
shall vacate his office. Such bond shall be payable to the board of
supervisors of the county for which he is appointed, and with condition
for the faithful discharge of his duty. A vacaney in the office of said
road surveyor shall be filled as provided for his appointment in section
one of this act. A recovery on his bond shall be for the benefit of
his road district.
3. The said board of supervisors shall determine at least thirty davs
hefore the appointment of said surveyor the amount of compensation
he shall receive during his said term, which shall not be increased or
diminished during said term.
4. The said board shall have power to remove said surveyor at their
pleasure.
5. Every road surveyor shall have power to appoint a deputy road
su evor and pay said deputy out of his own compensation.
The said road surveyor shall make a report in writing every three
months to the said board of supervisors of such matters and things rela-
tive to the roads in his district as the said board may require, and oftener
if the said board shall require it.
7. When said report has been made and the board of supervisors are
satisfied that the said surveyor has fully performed his duty as such,
then, and not till then, they shall issue the warrant to him for his pay.
8. Every surveyor shall be liable to prosecution for any neglect of
duty or malfeasance in office, and, upon conviction, in each case shall
be fined not less than five and not more than fifty dollars, and the fines
before provided for shall be used on the roads in the district wherein the
surveyor fined resides.
9. The board of supervisors of said county shall from time to time
prescribe and note on the records of their proceedings such plans, restric-
tions, and directions as they shall deem best for the repairing, working,
and keeping in order the roads in the said road districts in said county,
including any special plans, specifications, restrictions, or directions
which they may prescribe for particular roads or bridges, and the said
board shall have power to adopt different plans for working and repair-
ing the roads in the different districts in said county.
10. The said surveyors shall render to said board along with the
report provided for in section six of this act a statement of all the labor
employed by him, together with the price agreed to be paid per day or
month, and also of any other expense incurred bv him as such surveyor.
Said statement shall be sworn to, and when said statement shall have
been approved by said board, then, and not before, shall issue warrants
for the several amounts shown to be due by said statement.
11. It shall be lawful for said board to hire or buy such teams, tools,
or implements as it may deem necessary to work and keep in repair the
roads of said districts out of funds belonging to said districts, and such
property so purchased shall belong to the several districts, and it shall
also be lawful for said board to purchase teams, tools, implements and
machines to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one
year, on a credit with the approval of the county judge of Sussex county
entered of record, and to levy a tax to pay the same in the succeeding
vear thereafter.
12. Said surveyor shall have charge of all teams, tools, and imiplements
belonging to said county and used on the work under his charge in
sheir road districts, and shall be responsible for their condition, and he
shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to
time by his board of supervisors.
13. It shall be the duty of each supervisor of his district in the month
of February to ride over the roads of his district (that is his magisterial
district), and at the next meeting thereafter make a report in writing of
the condition of the roads in his said district, and for the services
required of said supervisor by this section each of them shall receive as
their compensation the sum of two dollars.
14. Upon the complaint in writing of any three citizens of any road
district in the said county to any supervisor thereof that any portion of
the road in said district is in a bad condition, it shall be the duty of the
supervisor of said district to notify the road surveyor of said district of
such condition, and it shall be the duty of said road surveyor to repair
said portion of said road as soon thereafter as is practicable.
15. The said board shall annually levy along with the county levy
a tax on all property, real and personal, assessed for taxation in the
several road districts aforesaid, for the working, repairing, and keeping
in order of the public roads and bridges under this act, which tax shall
not exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of such property,
and such tax shall be laid separately on each road district, and may be
of different rates in different districts, and of the moneys collected by
the county treasurers in each district a separate account shall be kept,
and the same shall be expended in the district in which they were
collected.
16. The said board of supervisors may, with the consent of the county
judge of Sussex county, appropriate a portion of the general county levy
towards the working and repairing the roads and bridges of the county
or any portion thereof.
17. The provisions of chapter forty-three of the code of Virginia, of
the edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in reference to county
roads, causeways and bridges, shall apply to and be in force in said
counties so far as not inconsistent with this act, and so far as the matters
therein contained shall not have been provided for in this act, except
that sections numbered from nine hundred and sixty-three to nine hun-
dred and eighty-three, inclusive, of said chapter shall not have effect or
be in force in said county where inconsistent with this act.
18. This act shall be in force from its passage.