Chap. 282.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Independence, in the county of Grayson, approved March 27, 1934, by adding
thereto a new section numbered 7-a, providing how persons convicted of
violating town ordinances may be required to work on the streets and roads
in said town. [H B 537]

Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the
county of Grayson, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred
and thirty-four, be amended by adding thereto a new section num-
bered seven-a, which new section shall read as follows:

Section 7-a. The said council shall also have the power to provide
by ordinance as follows: that, where a fine imposed upon any person
for violation of any ordinance of the town, shall not be promptly
paid, the official trying the case may, in his discretion, either commit
such person to jail until such fine and the costs following the same shall
be paid, but in no case for a period longer than six months, or
require him to work out such fine and costs on the streets or other
improvements of the town at a rate per day equivalent to the pre-
vailing wages for similar work at that time, such rate to be deter-
mined from time to time by the circuit court of Grayson county and
entered of record in the common law order book of said court; that,
where a jail sentence is imposed upon any person for violation of
any such ordinance, the official trying the case may, in his discretion,
either commit such person|to jail for the term so imposed, or require
him to work for the same length of time on the streets or other
public improvements of the town; that, if any person shall refuse to
work on the streets or other public improvements of the town when
required so to do under |either of the foregoing provisions, such
refusal shall constitute an joffense against the ordinance under which
such punishment was imposed, for which offense such additional
penalty may be imposed upon the offender as may be prescribed by
said ordinance.