Chap. 530.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 of chapter 474 of the acts
of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, entitled an act to regulate the operation of
vehicles on public highways; to govern and protect pedestrians while using
such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act
and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uni-
form the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with provisions of this act. {H B 182]

Approved March 29, 1928

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventy-two of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, relating to the regulation of the
operation of vehicles on public highways, et cetera, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 72. All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or
upon a forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any
of the provisions of this act constituting a misdemeanor, shall be paid
into the State treasury, provided, however, that in counties adjoining
one or more cities lying wholly within this State and containing an
aggregate population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more,
as shown by United States census and in cities, incorporated towns
and counties having a regularly constituted and established police
force, and in counties that may hereafter contitute and establish such
police force, the council and board of supervisors are hereby authorized
and empowered to adopt ordinances to regulate the operation of vehicles
on the public highways in such cities, incorporated towns or counties,
as the case may be, not in conflict with the provisions of this act, and
to provide penalties for violating the provisions of such ordinances,
but no penalty thus fixed shall be greater than the penalties imposed
for similar offenses under the provisions of this act. In such cities,
incorporated towns or counties having such a police force, and in
which said council or board shall adopt the ordinances herein authorized,
all fines imposed for a violation of such ordinances shall, in cities and
in incorporated towns be paid into the city or town treasury and in
said counties shall be paid into a special fund to be known as the
county highway maintenance fund, and shall be used exclusively in the
construction, maintenance and repair of public highways, bridges and
culverts, and in employing and maintaining devices for traffic control
or aid, including the maintenance of such regularly constituted and
established police force in such manner as the board may direct.