Chap. 282.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled an
act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special und local legis-
lation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroach-
ment and injury, to make violations of such enactment a misdemeanor,
and to provided penalties, approved March 15, 1910. [H B 185]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act
to empower boards of supervisors to enact special and local legisla-
tion to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, en-
croachment and injury, to make violations of such enactments a
misdemeanor, and to provide penalties, approved March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows: |

Section 1. The boards of supervisors of the several counties of
the Commonwealth shall have power to enact such special and local
legislation in their respective counties, and repeal or amend the
same, not in conflict with the Constitution and the general laws of
the Commonwealth, as they may deem expedient to authorize cor-

orations or persons to erect and maintain electric power and light
ines, consisting of poles and wires along the respective public road-
ways and turnpikes of their respective counties and to require that
such poles and wires shall be so erected and maintained that they
will not obstruct passage thereon when completed; and to protect
the public roads, ways and~bridges of such county from encroach-
ment or obstruction, or from any improper or exceptionally in-
jurious use thereof, and this power shall extend to and may be
exercised over turnpike road, the control of which has been given
to said boards of supervisors and whether tolls be taken thereon
or not; provided, the board of supervisors shall not enact a law
fixing the width of tires to be used on vehicles until after the ques-
tion shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of the county
at a general or special election, and a majority of said voters shall
have voted in favor of the proposed law fixing the width of tires.

Provided, further, that the use of roads, turnpikes and public
ways for tramways, conduits, poles or other quasi-public uses shall
be under such conditions as may be prescribed by enactments of the
boards of supervisors, and that the boards of supervisors shall have
power by enactment herein authorized to revoke all unused grants or
permits given for the use of roads, turnpikes or public ways. The
unused grants or permits shall include all or any part of such grants
or permits as may not have been actually used at the time such enact-
ment takes effect. The enactments of the boards of supervisors
enacted under this provision shall be construed as regulations and
not as contracts.

Any violation of such enactments shall be deemed a misdemeanor
and shall be punishable by fine of not less than five or more than
one hundred dollars for each offense. The circuit courts of the sev-
eral counties shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the
peace for the trial of violations of the provisions of this act.