Chap. 282.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73 of the acts of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved April 28, 1887, entitled an act to amend an act
for working the public roads of Fairfax county, as amended by acts approved
February 17, 1890, February 22, 1800, February 20, 1896, February 2, 1898, and
January 24, 1900.

Approved May 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the yveneral assembly of Virginia, That chapter
eventy-three of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved
\pril twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act
o amend an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county, as
mended by acts of the general assembly approved February seventeenth,
ighteen hundred and ninety, February twenty-two, eighteen hundred
nd ninety, February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, Feb-
‘uary second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and January twenty-
ourth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
ows:

2. The improvement, maintenance, construction, and all other admin-
strative control of all the roads in Fairfax county outside of organized
ncorporated towns are hereby vested in a county road board of seven
nembers, consisting of the county surveyor as member and as ex-officio
‘-hairman, and of the six road commissioners hereinafter provided. The
-ountv road board shall be a body politic and corporate, and may sue and
be sued. The word “road” as herein used shall be held to include all
public roads, thoroughfares, turnpikes, highways, and the bridges thereon.

3. Each of the six magisterial districts of Fairfax county, exclusive of
organized incorporated towns, shall constitute a road district, and shall
have a road commissioner, who shall be a freeholder and a registered voter
residing within the geographical limits of such district. Such road com-
missioner shall be appointed by the judge of the circuit court; shall
qualify before the county clerk, and shall hold office for a term of three
years, or an unexpired portion thereof, or until his successor qualifies :
provided, that the first six road commissioners qualifying under this act
shall be appointed by the judge of the county court on satisfactory nomi-
nations by the county surveyor, and shall serve as follows: Two until the
first day of January, nineteen hundred and five, two until the first day of
January, nineteen hundred and six, and two until the first dav of Janu-
ary, nineteen hundred and seven; the commissioners whose terms shall
so expire being determined by lot at the first meeting of the county road
board.

4, The county clerk, or his deputy, shall act as clerk of the county
road board, and shall preserve in his office records of its proceedings, in-
cluding all expenditures authorized, and plats of all roads as they may,
from time to time, be defined, and shall receive therefor such compensa-
tion as may be fixed by the board of supervisors.

5. The county treasurer shall disburse all road funds upon the warrant
of the ex-officio chairman of the county road board, when such chairman
is properly bonded, and for collecting and disbursing shall receive such
commission as may be fixed by the board of supervisors. He shall, at
stated periods, advise the county road board of the condition of the road
fund. No warrant shall, without the written authority of the board of
supervisors, be drawn in excess of available road funds.

6. The county road board shall hold an annual meeting in January of
each year, and such other regular and special meetings as may be neces-
sary. It shall at least once cach year recommend to the board of super-
visors levies for road purposes. It shall classify the roads of the county,
adopt economical, progressive, and uniform standards for the construe.
tion and maintenance of each class, authorize and scrutinize expenditures
of the road funds, make special inspections of the roads, and at least once
a year audit the accounts of its chairman. These accounts shall then be
certified to the board of supervisors, who shall again audit and then pub-
lish in full in a county newspaper.

7. The chairman of the county road board shall preside at its meeting,
call special meetings when necessary, prepare plans, estimates, and speci-
fications, make frequent inspections of all the roads and of all work being
done, do all the surveying and engineering necessary for road work, in-
cluding surveying of proposed roads, and perform such other duties in
connection with the roads as the county road board may direct. He shall
receive therefor such compensation, not less than nine hundred dollars
per annum, as may be fixed by the board of supervisors. He shall, at
the expense of the county, give bond before the cireuit court for ‘the
faithful performance of his duties in such sum as may be fixed by the
board of supervisors.

8. Fach road commissioner shall, under the direction of the county
road board, and of its chairman, have charge of the roads in his district.
He shall make frequent inspections of the roads and of the work being
done. He shall receive therefor, and for his duties as a member of the
county road board, such compensation not less than two dollars per day
when actually employed, for not to exceed one hundred days in each year,
as may be fixed by the board of supervisors.

9, As far as practicable all road work shall be let by contract by the
county road board after a public opening of sealed proposals invited by
public notice; and all work shall be carefully inspected by the chairman
or by the commissioner of the district affected,

10. As far as possible all road work shall be done between the first of
March and the first of September of each year, and at least one-half of

the work shall be for permanent improvement as distinguished from tem-
) porary repairs.

11. New roads in the districts herein created may be opened, and ex-
‘Heating roads may be closed, widened, changed, or de fined by order of the
court or circuit court of Fairfax county, but only after reference to the
county road board for written recommendation as to expediency and as
to the amount of compensation and damages, if any, to be awarded. No
new road shall be opened less than thirty feet wide.

12. The board of supervisors, after settling their road accounts now
outstanding, shall allot to the county road board and have placed to the
credit of its ex-officio chairman with the county treasurer such portion of
the present general county levy as can be spared for road purposes; and
hereafter at least one-fourth of the general county levy shall be so allotted,
and when collected so credited for road purposes.

13. The board of supervisors shall levy annually a district road tax
of not less than twenty cents on the hundred dollars’ valuation of all tax-
alle property, which, when collected, the county treasurer shall disburse
as hereinbefore provided. The road fund of each district shall be kept
separate, and shall be applied ex¢lusively in such district: provided, that
each annual district fund in the proportion that it bears to the total
annual road fund of the county and districts may be drawn upon for the
expenses of the county road board for the purchase of utensils for use in
all of the districts, or for any expenditure the benefits of which are shared
bv all the districts: and provided, further, that the road fund in any dis-
trict may, in such proportion as may be fixed by the county road board,
be drawn upon for its proportionate share of expenditure made jointly
with an adjacent district.

14. The offices of road superintendent, of road surveyor, of road over-
seers, and of road commissioners, except as herein specified, are for Fair-
fax county hereby abolished. All records, books, utensils, and other
road property shall be promptly turned over to the county surveyor.
The county treasurer shall settle the present outstanding road fund ac-
counts of each district and place any balance in each to the credit of the
corresponding road district herein created.

15. All acts or portions of acts inconsistent with or rendered unneces-
sarv by this act are hereby repealed.

16. This act shall take effect from its passage.