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 | 454 |
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Chap. 454.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and four of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2,:1898 and as further
amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, which latter act was further
amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, which said amendment and
the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of authorizing the
board of supervisors of said county to work and improve the public roads
of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads and bridges of said
county, and authorize the erection of toll gates on certain roads in said
county for the purpose of raising revenue to maintain and build, macadamize
and otherwise permanently improve roads in said county, approved Febru-
ary 20, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1916, approved
February 28, 1918. [H B 449]
Approved March 24, 1920.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions two and four of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair
the public roads in Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and
as further amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and four, which latter act was further amended by an act ap-
proved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, which said amend-
ment and the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of
authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work and im-
prove the public roads of said county, expend any surplus money on
the roads and bridges of said county, and authorize the erection of
toll gates on certain roads in said county, for the purpose of raising
revenue to maintain and build, macadamize and otherwise permanently
improve roads in said county, approved February twentieth, nineteen
hundred and twelve, as amended by an act approved March sixteenth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen, approved February twenty-eighth, nine-
teen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 2. The board of supervisors of Amherst county is directed
and authorized to levy (when it makes its annual levy) such district
road levy as may be desired and required by said board to carry out
the provisions of this act, not to exceed fifty cents on the one hun-
dred dollars assessed value of property, and in addition thereto the
board of supervisors shall in their discretion levy annually fifty cents
on the one hundred dollars assessed value of property in Elon and
Pedlar districts for a period of two years to be used in the resurfacing
and reconstruction of the road from Martin’s store to the Forks of
Buffalo, and from Madison Heights to Wright’s shop, said resurfacing
and reconstruction work to be done under the direction, supervision
and control of the State highway commissioner. Said levies shall be
collected and accounted for as are other levies by the county treasurer.
The tax so levied and collected in each district shall be used and
applied in that respective district by said road board, except that of the
railroads, telephones and telegraph lines, which shall be equally
divided between the four districts, and in addition to said district road
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tax and the annual estimate and provision made in the county levy for
building bridges, opening new roads, and so forth, the said board of
supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to make an addi-
tional levy not to exceed the sum provided under the general laws to
be collected and accounted for by the county treasurer like other levies
and to be kept as a separate fund; and when said road board shall
deem it advisable, they may allow said fund to accumulate and may
direct the treasurer of said county to deposit so much of said surplus
fund as he may have on hand from time to time in one or more banks,
taking therefor an interest-bearing certificate payable to said treasurer
upon the order of said board, together with approved security for
such deposits, this and any other surplus of the county funds now
at any time in said county treasury, which may be available for the
purpose, the said board of supervisors, by and through said road board
of said county, is authorized and empowered to use as said road board
may deem advisable and necessary in repairing, relocating, regrading
and the improvement of the public roads, as well as opening new
roads and building bridges in said county, under such rules and regu-
lations as said road board may adopt as heretofore provided.
Sec. 4. Said road board shall meet in each month in regular ses-
sion upon such day as may be prescribed by an order of the board
and for such called meetings as the chairman may designate, and for
actual attendance on said board each member shall receive the sum
of two dollars and fifty cents, but not to receive pay for more than
twenty-five meetings in any one year; and for other services rendered
in inspection and supervising roads the sum of four dollars per day,
accounts for such services to be itemized and sworn to; provided,
however, that no member, for the latter service, shall receive payment
for more than forty days in any one year.