Chap. 22,-An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to relieve counties of Vir-
ginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and im-
provement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, cause-
ways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system
of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties,
and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of High-
ways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner ;
to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the
purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from
the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict
herewith, approved March 31, 1932, by adding thereto a new section to be
designated as 1ll-a, providing the manner in which any county withdrawing
fromthe operation of said act may bring itself back under the operation
thereof. [H. B. 36]

Approved September 7, 1933

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain
cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including con-
struction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets,
bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State
highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and
authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of High-
ways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Com-
missioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate
funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties
for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and thirty-two, be amended by adding a new section thereto
to be designated as eleven-a, said new section to read as follows:

Section 11-a. Any county which has withdrawn from the operation
of this act in the manner provided in the preceding section, shall have
the right at any time after one year from the day upon which such with-
drawal becomes effective, to bring itself back within and under the
operation of this act, provided the same shall be approved by a majority
of the qualified voters of such county voting in an election called for
that purpose, as herein provided. ,

The circuit court of any such county, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, shall, upon the petition of qualified voters of the county, equal in
number to at least twenty per centum of the number counted in such
county for presidential electors at the last preceding presidential elec-
tion, but in no event less than two hundred and fifty, make an order
requiring the judges of election, on such day as may be fixed in said
order, but not less than thirty days after the date of entry thereof, to
open a poll and take the sense of the qualified voters of the county on
the question of whether or not such county shall come back within and
under the operation of this act. The qualifications of voters at each
such election shall be as provided by section eighty-three of the Code

of Virginia.
The form of ballot for use in any such election shall be as follows:
RS) ct) eee county (the name of such county to be
inserted) come back within and under the operation of an act of the
General Assembly of Virginia, approved March thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and thirty-two, establishing the secondary system of State
highways for maintenance and construction by the State?
“Ves”
“No” :

Each qualified voter, who shall approve the coming back within and
under the operation of this act shall express such approval by striking
out the word ‘“‘No,” and each voter who shall disapprove the same shall
express his disapproval by striking out the word “Yes.” All other
proceedings in connection with any such election shall be in conformity
with the proceedings prescribed in section eleven of this act.

If the result of such election shall be in favor of the county coming
back within and under the operation of this act, such county shall, after
the entry by the court of an order so declaring the result of said elec-
tion, and on and after the first day of July next succeeding, be within
and under the operation of this act as fully and completely as if it had
not withdrawn therefrom. All provisions of this act, except section
eleven hereof, shall thereupon apply to and be enforced as to such
county to the same extent as if the dates in the said act had been changed
to correspond with the year in which such county shall come within
and under the operation of this act. Such county shall not, however,
be allowed again to withdraw under the provisions of section eleven
of this act. :

It is hereby further provided that any such county shall, however,
in lieu of bringing itself back within and under the operation of this
act in the manner hereinbefore in this section provided, have the right,
and is hereby fully authorized, to bring itself back within and under
the operation of this act by a contract or agreement to that effect, en-
tered into at any time between its board of supervisors or other govern-
ing body and the State Highway Commissioner. Upon and after the
entering into of such contract or agreement, such county shall be within
and under the operation of this act to all intents and purposes as if it
had come back within and under the same in pursuance of an election
as hereinbefore provided.

It is further hereby provided that there may be incorporated in, and
as part of, any such contract, such provision as may be agreed upon
by the board of supervisors or other governing body of the county and
the State Highway Commissioner, concerning the installation, main-
tenance and operation of water and/or sewer lines along any of the
highways within the limits of such county.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.