Chap. 445.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 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 reconstruc-
tion, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves;
to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose ta
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 appro-
priate aud 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’, said section dealing with the
control, supervision, management, and jurisdiction over roads in the secondary
system and the abandonment thereof. [S B 182]

Approved April 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two of an act entitled an act to relieve counties of Virginia of,
and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improve-
ment, 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 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,
said section dealing with the control, supervision, management, and
jurisdiction over roads in the secondary system and the abandonment
thereof, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2. The control, supervision, management and jurisdiction
over the secondary system of State highways shall from and after
July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be vested in the Depart-
ment of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the main-
tenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction,
of such secondary system of State highways shall be by the State under
the supervision of the State Highway Commissioner. The boards
of supervisors of the several counties and the county road board or
county road commission of any county operating under a county road
board or county road commission shall, from and after such date, be
relieved of control, supervision, management and jurisdiction over
such public roads, causeways, bridges, landings and wharves, constitut-
ing the secondary system of State highways.

At least once in each calendar year after January first, nineteen
hundred and thirty-three, the representative of the Department of
Highways in charge of such secondary system of State highways in
each county or some representative of said department designated by
the State Highway Commissioner shall meet with the board of super-
visors of each such county at a regular or special meeting of said
board, notice of which meeting shall be posted by the county clerk at
the front door of the courthouse of such county ten days before such
meeting, and there discuss and advise with said board of supervisors
and the citizens present plans and proposals for the maintenance and
improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of such
secondary system of State highways in such county, and towns as
were maintained by the boards of supervisors before the passage of
this act. After which discussion each such board of supervisors shall
make written recommendations to the Department of Highways as
to the expenditure of funds for such work in such county and towns;
and the Department of Highways shall observe and follow such recom-
mendations in so far as they are compatible with the department’s
general plans and available funds will permit, having due regard to
the maintenance and improvement of all existing roads in said county
and towns in said secondary system.

Except as otherwise provided in this act, the State Highway Com-
inission shall be vested with the same powers, control and jurisdiction
over the secondary system of State highways in the several counties
and towns of the State, and such additions as may be made from
time to time, as is now vested in the boards of supervisors of the
several counties or in the county road board or county road commission
in any county now operating under a county road board or county road
commission and in addition thereto shall be vested with the same
power, authority and control as to the secondary system of State high-
ways as vested in the said commission in connection with the State
highway system.