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.
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Volume | 1906 |
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Law Number | 322 |
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Chap. 322.—An ACT to regulate the erection of toll gates on turnpikes in the
State of Virginia.
Approved March 19, 1906.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful to erect more than one gate for the collection of tolls on any
one section of any turnpike or toll road in which the State of Virginia
has an interest, and no toll gate on such turnpike or road shall be erected
or placed within one-half mile of the corporate limits of any city; and
that portion of any turnpike which lies between the toll gate and the
limits of any city or shall be kept in repair to the extent of a half mile
from the corporate limit of said city, jointly by the turnpike company and
the city, within the limits of which such portion of such turnpike lies;
the turnpike company in any event not being required to pay more than
two-thirds of the cost of improving and maintaining the outlying sec-
tion after the same plan and condition as the remainder of its turnpike;
but nothing herein contained shall prevent the city from paving or other-
wise improving such outlying section at its own expense, with the con-
sent of the turnpike company; and nothing herein contained shall affect
the title of the said turnpike company to its property or road bed, or the
rate of its toll to persons passing through its toll gates; and, the condition
of such outlying section shall not be subject to the report of viewers
under chapter ten of chapter six hundred and eight, in the acts of the
general assembly of Virginia, ninefeen hundred and two, three, four, re-
lating to turnpike companies.
2. Any turnpike or toll company violating the provision of this act
shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for each day it so continues said
toll gate.