Chap. 55.—An ACT. to amend and re-enact an act. entitled “An act to invest
in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting any city, within
or without this State, having a population of 125,000 or more, as shown
by the United States census, and in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining
any county which. adjoins and abuts any such city and has a density of
population of 500 or more to the square mile, the same powers. and authority
now vested in, or hereafter conferred upon, common councils of cities and
towns, and to repeal an act entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors
of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a population of 125,000 or more
inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority
now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and
towns, approved March 4, 1920, and any and all acts amendatory thereof”,
approved February 27, 1932, so as to confer like powers on boards of super-

visors of counties having a density of population of 475 or more to the square
mile. [H B 196]

Approved March 2, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors of counties ad-
joining and abutting any city, within or without this State, having a
population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand or more, as
shown by United States census, and in boards of supervisors of
counties adjoining any county which adjoins and abuts any such city
and has a density of population of five hundred or more to the square
mile, the same powers and authority now vested in, or hereafter con-
ferred upon, common councils of cities and towns, and to repeal an
act entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors of counties ad-
joining and abutting a city with a population of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand or more inhabitants, as shown by United States
census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter con-
ferred upon common councils of cities and towns. approved March
fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and any and all acts amenda-
tory thereof, approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: ,

» Section 1. The boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and
abutting any city, within or without this State, having a population
of one hundred and twenty-five thousand or more, as shown by United
States census, and the boards of supervisors of counties adjoining
any county which adjoins and abuts any such city and has a density
of population of five hundred or more to the square mile, and the
boards of supervisors of counties having a density of population of
four hundred and seventy-five or more to the square mile, are hereby
vested with the same powers and authority as are now vested or
which may hereafter be vested in the councils of cities and towns by
virtue of the Constitution of the State of Virginia or the acts of the
General Assembly passed or which may hereafter be passed, in pur-
suance thereof; provided, however, that no ordinance shall be enacted
under authority of this act regulating the equipment, operation, light-
ing, or speed of motor propelled vehicles operated on the public
highways of such county, unless the same be uniform with general
laws of this State regulating such equipment. operation. lighting or
speed and with the regulations of the State Highway Commission
adopted pursuant to such general laws, and provided further that noth-
ing in this act shall be construed to give such boards of supervisors any
power to control or exercise supervision over signs, signals, markings
and traffic lights on any roads constructed and maintained by the State
highway department.

Provided, that all laws enacted by boards of supervisors under
authority of this act shall be submitted to and approved by the judge
of the circuit court of the respective counties, after hearing testimony
of all parties desiring to be heard to be taken as in common law cases,
showing the necessity. of such laws and police regulations, or in op-
position thereto. And provided further that all fines imposed under
any such ordinances shall be paid into the State treasury where the
offender was arrested by an officer of one of the departments of the
State government.