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 | 1920 |
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Law Number | 335 |
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Law Body
Chap. 335.—An ACT: to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize
the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor
on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the
commission of felony, as heretofere amended, including the amendment
thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by
acts approved February 29, 1912, and March 22, 1916, approved March
15, 1918. [S B 350]
Approved March 19, 1920.
Whereas, it is the fixed policy of the State of Virginia not to em-
ploy convicts upon contract work, but
Whereas, there are 4 number of convicts in the penitentiary, who,
on account of their physical condition, character or disposition, the
superintendent of the penitentiary deems it unsafe to be put on th
State convict road force; aad
- Whereas, unless some provision be made by law for the employ
nent of such convicts they will be confined in idleness after Februar-
‘wenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty; and
Whereas, it is expedient to provide employment for such convicts
now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec
tion two thousand and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 2073. How State convict road force constituted ; employmen
of cettain convicts at penitentiary.
All male prisoners convicted of felony, and sentenced to confine
ment in the penitentiary, and all male persons now convicted and con.
fined in the public jails, or who may be hereafter convicted and sc
confined, and sentenced to the road force for a misdemeanor, shall.
when delivered to the superintendent of the penitentiary, under the
provisions of section twenty hundred and seventy-five and twenty
hundred and ninety-six, constitute the State convict road force. But
such convicts as the superintendent of the penitentiary shall deem it
improper or unsafe to be put on the convict road force or other public
works, on account of physical condition, character or disposition, may
be employed by the penitentiary board in work for the State at the
penitentiary, or in State or county stone quarries, or at the State farm.
Convicts actually confined within the penitentiary, however, shall be
used, as far as possible, in the making of clothes, shoes and other
necessary articles required by the State convict road force and other
institutions of the State, and the superintendent of the penitentiary
and the penitentiary board are authorized and empowered to charge
the State convict road force and other State institutions the actual cost
of the materials used in the manufacture of articles furnished them,
and in addition thereto ten per centum of the said cost, the fund so
derived to be used to keep in repair and to replace the machinery,
tools, etc., used in the manufacture of the various articles furnished.
Any surplus of manufactured articles not required by the State convict
road force and the other institutions of the State may be disposed
of by the penitentiary board as it may deem best. It is further pro-
vided that the superintendent of the penitentiary and the penitentiary
board, on the part of the State, may extend the contract of employ-
ment in force on the passage of this act, or may enter into a new
contract, to such an extent as may be necessary to obviate the necessity
of keeping in idleness convicts actually confined in the penitentiary ;
provided that the new contract shall automatically expire on February
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, or earlier at the option of the
penitentiary board.
2. An act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the
court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor
on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for
the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amend-
ment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as
amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred
and twelve, and March twenty-two, nineteen hundred and sixteen,
approved March fifteen, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby
repealed.
_ 3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage. :