Chap. 70.—An ACT to prohibit the erection and continuation of devices and
signs in the form of a railway crossing sign boards on or near any of the
public roads of this State. {[H B 48]

Approved February 23, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no de-
vice or sign which is in the form of a railway crossing sign board
shall be erected or permitted to remain on or near any of the pub-
lic roads of this State, except as required by section forty-nine of
chapter four of the act entitled an act concerning public service cor-
porations, approved January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four.

2, Any person who shall erect such a device or sign, as afore-
said, and every sign owner who shall permit such a device or sign to
remain on or near the public roads of this State, and every land-
owner or tenant in possession who shall knowingly permit such a
sign to remain on his land in view of any public road, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than
five nor more than one hundred dollars.