Chap. 199.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act
to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges
and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to
provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads
and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and
vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for
working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved
February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and
March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for
working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved
February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by an act approved
March 19, 1920. (H B 233]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven of an act.entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk
a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and
duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling,
constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges
within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and
vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled
an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk
county, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
as amended by acts approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred
and eight, and March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, respec-
tively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keep-
ing in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, approved February first, nine-
teen hundred and fifteen, as amended by an act approved March nine-
teenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 7. From and after the passage of this act, the road and
quarry machinery, equipment and material now belonging to the
county of Norfolk shall be subject to the authority and control of the
said commission, and it shall have power to purchase machinery,
teams, equipment, supplies and material, and to perform all other
things necessary to carry out the purpose of this act.

Male persons convicted of misdemeanors and committed to the jail
of Norfolk county, unless such person shows to the judge of the
circuit court of said county good cause to the contrary, shall on the re-
quest of the said commission, be delivered to it for work in the quarry
or quarries owned by the county of Norfolk and under the control of
said commission; provided, that the number of such prisoners so
delivered, including those already delivered and working therein,
shall not at any time exceed twenty-five.

The said commission shall also have authority to: prevent the
public from traveling on any road or bridge, or any portion thereof,
while the same is being built, improved or repaired. Said commission
may make all necessary contracts, and may require proper bonds
from all contractors and material men for the faithful performance
of their contracts or undertakings. Any rules and regulations of a
general nature that the commission shall prescribe respecting travel
by the public shall be published at least twice in a newspaper of
general circulation published in the city of Norfolk or Portsmouth,
and posted at four public places in each magisterial district of the
county.