Chap. 212.—An ACT to empower boards of supervisors to enact special and
local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction,
encroachment, and injury, to make violations of such enactments a misde-
meanor, and providing penalties.

Approved March 14, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and thirty-four h, be amended and re-enacted to read as
follows:

§834h. The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the Com-
monwealth shall have power to enact such special and local legislation in
their respective counties not in conflict with the Constitution and the
general laws of the Commonwealth as they may deem expedient to pre-
tect the public roads, ways, and bridges of such county from encroach-
ment or obstruction or from any improper or exceptionally injurious use
thereof.

Any violation of such enactments shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and
shall be punishable by fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each offense.

Public notice of such legislation by the board of supervisors shall be
given by posting a copy of such enactment at each voting precinct in tLe
county, and on the front door of the courthouse not less than ten days
before it is to go into effect or by publishing a copy thereof at least once
in a newspaper published in the county not less than ten days before it
is to go into effect.

2. An emergency existing in that roads are now being injured and
obstructed by misuse, this act shall be in force from its passage.