Chap. 460.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act entitled
an act to add section 47 to chapter 106 of the acts of assembly of
Virginia, 1904, entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper
construction and improvement of the public roads, rules for building
and keeping in repair all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves
of the several counties of the State ‘and to repeal chapter 43 of the
Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, as amended by an act
approved March 16, 1910, in relation to the powers of boards a super-
visors in regard to the adoption, amendment, and repeal of special
road laws. (H. B. 151.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven of an act entitled an act to add section
forty-seven to chapter one hundred and six of the acts of the
assembly of Virginia, nineteen hundred and four, entitled an act
to provide the establishment, proper construction and improve-
ment of the public roads, rules for building and keeping in re-
pair all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves of the
several counties of the State, and to repeal chapter forty-three
of the Code of Virginia, approved March twelfth, nineteen hun-
dred and four, as amended by an act approved March six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and ten, in relation to the powers of
boards of supervisors in regard to the adoption, amendment and
repeal of special road laws, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Sec. 47. The board of supervisors of any county which has
not now a special road law may, by a recorded vote, adopt in-
stead of this act the special road law of any other county in this
State, or any part or parts of the special road law of any other
county or counties in this State, the said board or its successors
having the power at any time to rescind and annul any such
road law as it may have adopted under this act or any part
thereof, providing notice of such adoption shall, within ten
days, be sent by the clerk of the board of supervisors to the
State highway commissioner, giving in detail the special road
law of any county by which has been adopted in whole or in

The board of supervisors of any county which has now a
special road law, except the counties of Norfolk, Chesterfield,
Washington, Loudoun, James City, Charles City, Warwick, New
Kent, York, Giles, Bland, Page, Rappahannock, Alexandria,
Fauquier, Madison, Greene, Pittsylvania, Grayson, Wythe,
Northampton, Culpeper, Campbell, Princess Anne, Pulaski,
Greensville, Caroline, Lee, Smyth, Pittsylvania and Montgom-
ery may, by a recorded vote, adopt instead of said special road
law or any part thereof the special road law of any other county
in this State or any part or parts of the said special road law
of any other county or counties in this State, and the said board
or its successors shall have the power at any time to amend,
rescind or annul any such road law as it may have adopted
under this act or any part thereof.