Chap. 306.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1l-a of an act entitled a1
act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns it
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 prescrib
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 appropriat
and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections it
counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal act:
and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 31, 1932, as heretofore
amended, said section relating to the manner in which any county withdraw-

ing from the operation of said act may bring itself back under the operatior
thereof. H B 124

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
eleven-a 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 allo-
cate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in coun-
ties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts
and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March thirty-first, nine-
teen hundred and thirty-two, as heretofore amended, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section ll-a. Any county which has withdrawn from the operation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 op-
eration 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. 7

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 re-
quiring 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 ques-
tion 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:

it: | county (the name of such county to be in-
serted) 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.

The provisions of this section shall not affect or in any way invali-
date or annul any provisions of any contract or agreement heretofore
entered into by and between any county or the board of supervisors or
other governing body thereof, and the State Highway Commissioner,
whereby such county has been brought back within and under the op-
eration of this act.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.