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Volume | 1902/1904 |
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Law Number | 467 |
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Law Body
Chap. 467.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public
roads and bridges in Patrick county.
Approved December 18, 1903.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of Patrick county shall take charge of and have worked and
kept in repair the public roads and bridges within the limits of said
county; and for that purpose the said board of supervisors is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to set apart annually for each magisterial dis-
trict in said county from the fund assessed for general county purposes a
sum equal to not less than twenty cents nor more than fifty cents upon the
one hundred dollars of taxable values of all property in such district,
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which shall be used exclusively for the purpose of working and keeping
in repair the public roads and bridges within said district as provided in
this act. The amount so sct aside in each district shall be expended in
that district, except that the sum set apart from the levy on the property
of the Danville and Western Railway Company shall be equally divide:
among the several magisterial districts of said county.
2. The board of supervisors of said county shall employ a competeut
man for each magisterial district of said county as manager or overseer of
roads for said district, who shall hold said position only during the will
and pleasure-of said board. Before entering upon his duties as such the
said manager or overseer of roads shall execute a well secured bond in
the penalty of at least one thousand dollars, payable to the said board of
supervisors, conditioned for the faithful performance of such duties a:
may be required of him, and for the true accounting of all moneys and
property which may be placed in his hands as such manager or overseer.
He shall be paid a reasonable salary out of the road tax for the district.
to be fixed by the said board of supervisors.
3. The said board of supervisors shall furnish each manager or overseer
of roads with all necessary teams, tools, and machinery for the working
and keeping in repair the roads of his district, and shall from time to
time furnish him with such sums of moncy as they may deem necessary
for employing labor and paying other necessary expenses, except that no
manager or overseer shall have in his hands at any one time more than
five hundred dollars, unexpended or unaccounted for.
4, Each manager or overseer shall receipt for all property and money
intrusted to him, and shall render a true and faithful account therefor.
Once in every three months, or oftener, if the said board of supervisor:
shall so direct, he shall make a written report to said board of the condi-
tion of the roads of his district, and of the teams, tools, machinery, and
other property committed to his care and custody, and shall accompany
the same with an itemized sworn statement of all moneys received and
disbursed by him, and shall file proper vouchers for each of said disburse.
ments.
5. New roads may be opened, bridges located, and existing roads al-
tered in said county, in the manner provided by the general law of the
State; the expenses therefor to be paid out of the road fund for the dis
trict in which the same is located: provided, that when any road shal!
constitute the dividing line between two districts, or when any bridg
shall be located on or near the dividing line of two districts, the cost of
building or keeping the same in repair may be divided by said board be
tween such districts.
6. The said board of supervisors shall have authority, in their discre.
tion, to let to contract the building or repair of any bridge in said county
%. The said board of supervisors shall fix a scale of wages to be paid fot
labor employed in working and keeping in repair the roads of said county.
and shall prescribe the number of hours which shall constitute a day’
work. The said board may also adopt such plans and regulations, not in.
consistent with the provisions of this act, as may be necessary or proper te
secure the needful and efficient working of the roads of said county.
8. The said managers or overseers shall, under the direction of the
board of supervisors, work and put in repair, first, the turnpikes and prin-
cipal thoroughfares, and then as soon as practicable thereafter the other
public roads within their respective districts. In working all public roads
the road-bed shall be raised in the middle and slope gradually to each side,
with ditches sufficient to carry off the water, which shall at all times be
kept open; and all public roads in said county shall be kept free from
roots, stones, and other obstructions.
9. It shall be the duty of the supervisor of each district to keep him-
self informed as to the condition of the roads and bridges in his district,
and the manner in which they are worked and kept in repair, and whether
or not the manager or overseer in his district has fully performed his
duties; and said supervisor shall receive compensation for his services
under this act at the rate of two dollars per day for the time actually
engaged by him, but under no circumstances shall his compensation under
this act exceed the sum of forty dollars in any one year. Said compensa-
tion to be paid out of the road fund for his district.
10. All orders and proceedings of the said board of supervisors under
this act shall be entered of record by the clerk of said board in the minute
or order book of said board. And the clerk of said board shall receive
for the duties performed by him under this act such reasonable compen-
sation as may be allowed him by said board, which shall be apportioned
equally among all the magisterial districts of said county.
11. No person shall drag any log or logs over or along any public road
of said county without first having obtained the consent in writing of the
supervisor of the district, and any person convicted thereof shall pay a
fine of not less than two dollars and a half, which shall be turned into
the road fund of the district in which the offense was committed.
12. The said board of supervisors shall have authority, in their dis-
cretion, to expend any money already assessed for general county purposes
in. working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in said
county in the manner herein provided.
13. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they
may apply to Patrick county, are to that extent hereby repealed.
14. This act shall be in effect on and after January first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.