An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1940 |
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Law Number | 208 |
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Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, 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 allocate 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 all acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith.”, approved March 31, 1932. [H B 101]
Approved March 16, 1940
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section one, as heretofore amended, 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 allocate funds for
the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for with-
drawal 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 1. There is hereby created and established the secondary
system of State highways to consist of all of the public roads, cause-
ways, bridges, landings and wharves in the several counties of the
State, as of March first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, not in-
cluded in the State highway system, including such roads and com-
munity roads leading to and from public school buildings, streets,
causeways, bridges, landings and wharves in incorporated towns
having thirty-five hundred inhabitants or less according to the census
of nineteen hundred and twenty, and in all towns incorporated since
nineteen hundred and twenty, as constitute connecting links between
roads in the secondary system, and in the several counties and be-
tween roads in the secondary system and roads in the primary sys-
tem of the State highways, not, however, to exceed two miles in
any one town. If in any such town, which is partly surrounded by
water, less than two miles of the roads and streets therein constitute
parts of the secondary system of State highways, the State Highway
Commission shall, upon the adoption of a resolution by the council
or other governing body of such town, designating for inclusion in
the secondary system of State highways certain roads and streets in
such town not to exceed a distance of two miles, less the length of
such roads and streets in such town which constitute parts of the
secondary system of State highways, and accept and place in the
secondary system of State highways such additional roads and streets.