(Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section | 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 227]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one 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 vacat-
ing 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 1. For the purpose of this act the six magisterial districts
of the county of Norfolk shall be divided into three road districts,
as follows: Road district number one shall be composed of Tanner’s
creek magisterial district ; road district number two shall be composed
of Wester branch, Deep creek and Pleasant grove magisterial dis-
tricts; road district number three shall be composed of Butts road
and Washington magisterial districts. A permanent commission, to
consist of three members, and to be known as the commission of
roads and bridges for the county of Norfolk, is hereby created. Each
of the members of the said commission shall be qualified to vote
and shall be a resident of the road district for which he is elected. On
the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, ninteen hundred
and twenty-two, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected
by the qualified voters of each of the road districts herein described
one member of the said commission, who shall take office on the first
day of January .following his election. Whenever a vacancy in said
commission: shall occur the judge of the circuit court of Norfolk
county shall appoint his successor, who shall be chosen from the
road district in which such vacancy exists and who shall serve until
the next general election, at which time his successor shall be elected
for the unexpired term by the qualified voters of such road district.
The terms of office of the members of the commission who may be
in office on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two
shall expire on that date. The commission shall annually elect one of
their members chairman, and another of their members secretary
of the same, and shall have authority to require of the sheriff of
said county, or any of his deputies, such attendance and services
as may be necessary to preserve order and serve notices. All sessions
of the commission shall be public, and a permanent record (to
be prepared by the secretary) shall be kept of its orders, proceedings,
receipts, and expenditures, and of all reports made to it or by it,
which shall at all times, during normal business hours, be open to
public inspection. Two of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, whether there be a vacancy in the
commission or not, and a majority of the commissioners present may
decide any question that may properly come before the meeting. ‘The
board of supervisors of said county shall, subject to the approval of
the commission, provide suitable quarters and blank records for
the commission, and the judge of said court shall fix the salaries of
the members of the commission, but the salary of each commissioner
shall be not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than one thou-
sand dollars per annum. Due to the added duties and expense
of the chairman, he shall have a salary allowance of not more than
six hundred dollars in excess of the salaries of the other two com-

missioners.