Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act
to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in,
the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction,
of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to es-
tablish 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 Highways, 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. [H B 317]

Approved March 27, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
nine of an act entitled an act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and
to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement,
including construction 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 Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway
Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and al-
locate 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 and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 9. The State Highway Commissioner, subject to the ap-
proval of the State Highway Commission shall select such streets and
roads, or portions thereof, in incorporated towns and cities having more
than thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants according to the census
of nineteen hundred and twenty, and in all towns situate within one
mile of the corporate limits of a city of the first class and having a
population in excess of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants ac-
cording to the census of nineteen hundred and thirty, and in all cities
operating under a charter designating them as cities of the first class
notwithstanding the number of inhabitants as may, in his judgment,
be best for the handling of traffic in such towns and cities, from or to
any road in the State highway system, and from time to time make
such changes in the selection thereof as may be reasonable and proper.
If such streets and roads, or portions thereof, in such towns or cities
so selected by the State Highway Commissioner shall, in the opinion
of the State Highway Commission, be maintained up to the standard
of maintenance of the State highway system adjoining such town or
city, the State Highway Commissioner shall cause to be paid to such
town or city, to be used by it in the maintenance and improve-
ment, including construction and reconstruction, of streets, roads and
bridges within such town or city, subject to the approval of the State
Highway Commission, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each year
for each mile of such streets and roads, or portions thereof, selected

by the State Highway Commissioner under the provisions of this section
within such town or city, one-third thereof to be paid from State high-
way maintenance funds and the remaining two-thirds thereof to be
paid from State highway construction funds allocated to the construc-
tion district in which such town or city is located. In addition thereto,
the State Highway Commissioner is authorized and directed, whenever
in the opinion of the State Highway Commission it is advisable that
any such street or road, or portion thereof, including bridges in any
such town or city, selected by the State Highway Commissioner under
the provisions of this section, be constructed or reconstructed, to pay,
or cause to be paid, to such town or city on account of such construction
or reconstruction, from State highway construction funds allocated to
the construction district in which such town or city is located, such
sum as the State Highway Commission may determine, not to exceed
five hundred dollars annually for each mile of such streets and roads,
or portions thereof, selected by the State Highway Commissioner
under the provisions of this section, within such town or city, pro-
vided such construction or reconstruction shall be done in accordance
with plans and specifications approved by the State Highway Commis-
sioner.