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 | 1901/1902 |
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Law Number | 145 |
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Chap. 145.—An ACT prescribing the manner of working and keeping in repair
the public roads and the manner of opening and constructing new roads and
bridges and discontinuing public roads in Alleghany county, Virginia.
Approved March 10, 1902.
1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That the author-
ity to construct new public roads and bridges, and to discontinue public
roads, and to work and keep in repair the public roads of Alleghany
county shall be vested in the board of supervisors of said county, which
said board is hereby clothed with full power to do all things necessary
in constructing new roads and bridges, and in discontinuing public roads,
and in working and keeping in repair the present public roads in said
county under the provisions of this act, and for this purpose the said
board of supervisors shall have all the powers heretofore vested in the
county court of said county for the purpose of constructing public roads
and bridges and of discontinuing public roads, and of working and keep-
ing in repair the public roads of said county, and the same proceedings
shall be had therein as required in said court, and all laws applicable
to said court shall apply to said board of supervisors: provided, that any
one feeling himself aggrieved by any order of said board establishing,
discontinuing, or altcring any road may appeal to the county court in
the same manner as appeals are now allowed from said board. The said
board, for the purpose of working and keeping in repair the public roads
of said county, and for the purpose of constructing new roads, is au-
thorized and empowered to levy a road tax not exceeding in any one year
fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed taxable values in said
county liable for such taxation. All such taxes levied for road purposes,
under the provisions of this act, shall be collected and accounted for by
the county treasurer in the same manner as other taxes are collected and
accounted for. ,
2. The board of supervisors of said county shall employ one competent,
experienced man in each magisterial district in said county, who shall be
known and designated as the superintendent of public roads for the dis-
trict in which he is appointed, whose duties shall be to work said roads
and employ hands to work said roads, under the direction of said board of
supervisors as hereinafter prescribed. The said superintendent of roads
shall be employed by the board of supervisors for the term of two years or
for a shorter time, in the discretion of said board; and before entering
upon the discharge of his duties as such superintendent of roads he shall
enter into a bond, with approved security, in such an amount as the board
may prescribe, and shall take an oath to discharge the duties of his posi-
tion faithfully, and in accordance with the law. The superintendents of
roads of said county shall give their entire time and attention to the
public roads in their respective districts, and shall work them under the
direction of said board of supervisors. The said superintendents of roads
shall not engage in any business or occupation, either directly or indi-
rectly, other than their duties as superintendents of public roads while
they are such superintendents; and if any such superintendent of roads
appointed under the provisions of this act shall engage, cither directly
or indirectly, in any other business or occupation, such action on his
part shall make void his contract with such board of supervisors, and
he shall forfeit to the county any amount that may be due him as such
superintendent of public roads. It shall not be lawful for the board of
supervisors of said county to give to any superintendent of public roads
the right to enter into any other business or occupation while acting as
such superintendent of public roads.
3. The board of supervisors, if they have not already done so, shall
have all of the public roads in the county laid off into sections and desig-
nated by numbers, and shall furnish to each of the superintendents of
public roads in said county a list of the sections of roads in their respec-
tive districts, and shall also furnish to each of the said superintendents
of public roads in the county all necessary teams, wagons, plows, road
scrapers, and all other necessary tools and implements with which to work
the said roads, and shall also furnish them all material necessary to work
and repair said roads, and in furnishing said teams and implements the
said board of supervisors is authorized to purchase or hire the same, as
the said board may deem best.
4. The board of supervisors shall prescribe the number of hands that
shall be employed on the roads by each of the said superintendents of
roads, and shall fix the rate of wages to be paid said hands, and the super-
intendents of roads shall work said hands in their respective districts
under their personal supervision, and shall keep an accurate account of
the time worked by each hand, and an itemized account of any other ex-
penses incurred in working the roads in their respective districts, and
each superintendent of roads shall return and file with the clerk of the
board of supervisors every two weeks a written report showing an itemized
statement of the cost of labor and other expense incurred in working
the roads in their respective districts during the two weeks next pre-
ceding the filing of said report, and the board of supervisors, at their
next meeting, shall, if, in their opinion, said itemized statement of such
cost is correct, issue warrants on the treasurer of the county to the person
shown by said statement to be entitled to the same, or to their assigns,
for the amount due each person, as shown by said itemized statement,
payable out of the county road levy. At the expiration of everv three
months the superintendents of roads shall each file before the clerk of
the board of supervisors a written report showing which scctions of the
public roads have been worked in their respective districts, how many
times each has been worked on during the three months next preceding
the filing of said report, and all of the cost of working the public roads in
their respective districts during said three months for which the said
report is made. ;
5. The said superintendents of public roads shall receive and receipt
to the board of supervisors for the teams and implements furnished them
respectively by the board of supervisors, and it shall be the duty of said
superintendents of roads to take care of and handle in a proper manner
all teams and implements and other things furnished them by said board
for the purpose of working said roads, and the superintendents of roads
shall be responsible to the board of supervisors for any damage or loss
to said teams and implements resulting from careless or improper
handling of same by the said superintendents of roads, and said super-
intendents of roads shall report to the board every three months what
tools and teams are on hand, their condition, and what has been con-
sumed or injured or lost, and the cause of such loss or injury.
6. The superintendents of public roads shall each work in his own
district all of the public roads in his district, subject to the direction of
the board of supervisors, with such hands, and at such times as the said
board may direct, and when not so directed by the board, the superin-
tendents shall work on the roads themselves in their respective districts,
and when occasion requires it shall, with the consent of the supervisor
who resides in his district, employ hands and repair the public roads in
his district in any case of emergency, or when the public roads have been
damaged by unforeseen causes. The said superintendents of roads shall
give their personal supervision over and personal service in the working
and keeping in repair the public roads in their respective districts their
entire time.
7. The board of supervisors may prescribe plans and specifications for
working and keeping in repair the public roads in said county, and shall
have the power to make such plans and specifications for each section of
public road as the said board may deem proper, and the superintendents
of roads shall work the public roads according to the plans and specifica-
tions given them by said board.
8. The board of supervisors shall pay each of the said superintendents
of public roads for their services the sum of not less than fifty nor more
than seventy-five dollars per month, the same to be paid by warrant on
the county treasurer, payable out of the road fund, such warrant to be
issued by the said board to the superintendents of public roads for their
services at the expiration of every three months after their term of ger-
vice begins. The said board shall have the power of withholding from
any one of the superintendents of public roads any warrant or money
due him for services at any time, if such superintendent of roads has
failed to perform any of his duties as such superintendent.
9. The board of supervisors shall go over the public roads of said
county in person together at least twice in each year, and shall inspect
the public roads, and for such service shall he paid out of the road fund
the sum of two dollars per day each, and the necessary expense incurred
by them in going over said roads, but in no event shall the pay to each
of the members of the said board for such work exceed the sum of thirty
dollars, exclusive of their necessary expense, as herein provided, and the
board of supervisors may, whenever they deem it proper, appoint three
freeholders in each district to go over the public roads in their respective
districts and inspect the public roads, and report the condition of each
section thereof to the said board, and for such service the commissioners
so appointed shall be paid two dollars each per day out of the road fund,
but in no event shall more than twenty dollars be paid for such service
in each district annually.
10. The board of supervisors shall enter into a written contract with
each of the superintendents of roads, which contract shall set forth
the time for which the said superintendents of roads are employed, the
price to be paid them for their services, and shall further set forth the
duties of said superintendents of roads and the board of supervisors, re-
spectively, under the provisions of this act, and said contract shall con-
tain the stipulation that the board of supervisors shall have the right to
annul said contract at any time by paying the superintendent of roads
the amount due him without incurring any liability to such superin-
tendent of roads for a breach of the contract.
11. The board of supervisors of said county shall commence working
the public roads of Alleghany county, under the provisions of this act, on
the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two.
12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
ed.
Pes This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July, nine-
teen hundred and two.