Chap. 193.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of iB inia

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Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2743. Powers of local nature conferred on boards of super-
visors.—In addition to the powers conferred by other general statutes,
the board of supervisors of every county shall have power:

To establish or abolish tolls on roads built and maintained wholly
by the county and not receiving aid from the State;

To adopt. quarantine regulations affecting both persons and animals
in furtherance of the protection of the health of the county and not in-
consistent with general statutes;

To adopt the necessary regulations to prevent the spread of conta-
gious diseases among persons or animals;

To provide against and prevent the pollution of water in their re-
spective counties whereby it is rendered dangerous to the health or
lives of persons residing in the county;

To prevent the destruction of game, fish, wild fowls, birds, and fur-
bearing animals, and to limit still further than is provided by general
Jaw the time, manner, and means by which they may be taken or killed;
the number that may be taken or removed from the county in a given
time, and the manner and condition of such removal;

To prevent trespassing by persons, animals and fowls; and to prevent
animals from trespassing and running at large upon the public highways,
whether such highways be enclosed by fence or not;

To adopt such measures as they may deem expedient to secure and
promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the inhabitants of
their respective counties not inconsistent with the general laws of this
State.

For carrying into effect these and their other powers, the boards of
supervisors may make ordinances and by-laws and prescribe fines and
other punishment for violation thereof, which shall be enforced by pro-
ceedings before a justice of the peace in like manner and with hke right
of appeal as if such violation were misdemeanors. Such fines, however,
shall in no case exceed fifty dollars, and if imprisonment in the county
jail be prescribed in any case, such imprisonment shall not exceed thirty
days.

No such ordinance or by-law shall be passed until after notice of an
intention to propose the same for passage shall have been published for
two successive weeks prior to its passage in some newspaper published
in the county, or if there be none such, in some newspaper published in
an adjoining county or nearby city and having a general circulation in
the county of said board, and no such ordinance or by-law shall become
effective until after it shall have been published in full for two successive
weeks in a like newspaper.