Chap. 153.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 415, Acts of
1932, approved March 31, 1932, and relating to the establishment of the sec-
ondary system of State highways and providing for the maintenance and im-
provement thereof, so as to provide that all funds spent for the maintenance
and improvement of the secondary system of State highways in any fiscal year
shall not be less than 30% of the funds available for expenditure by the State
Highway Commission in such fiscal year for the maintenance and improvement
of both the primary and secondary systems. [S B 83]

Approved March 9, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
four of chapter four hundred and fifteen of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, approved March thirty-
first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted, as
follows : ,

Section 4. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-
two, the amount on hand from, and the proceeds of, the motor vehicle
fuel tax available for apportionment among the several counties of the
‘State under the law with reference to the levy, collection and expenditure
of motor vehicle fuel taxes, shall be set aside as a fund for the secondary
system of State highways and disbursed by the State under the super-
vision of the State Highway Commissioner for the maintenance and
improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of the secondary
system of State highways. An amount equal to the aggregate of such tax
apportionment among the several counties of the State for the calendar
year nineteen hundred and thirty-one, including the additional amount
for equalization as provided by law for that year, shall be allocated for
expenditure and expended in the maintenance and improvement, includ-
ing construction and reconstruction, of the secondary system of State
highways in the several counties of the State, upon the same basis of
apportionment upon which the motor vehicle fuel tax was apportioned
among the several counties of the State for the calendar year of nineteen
hundred and thirty-one, including such equalization. The State Highway
Commission is authorized and directed to allocate during each year from
State highway maintenance or construction funds, such sums, not less
than two million dollars ($2,000,000.00), as it may deem reasonable
and necessary and for the best interests of the several counties of the
State and of the State at large, to be expended under the provisions of
this act, together with any additional amounts available therefor, in the
maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction,
‘of the secondary system of State highways as may be allocated by the
State Highway Commission; provided, however, that all funds spent
upon the secondary system of highways for the maintenance and improve-
ment, including construction and reconstruction, shall not be less than
thirty per centum of the funds available to the State Highway Commis-
sion in any one fiscal year for maintenance and improvement, including
‘construction and reconstruction, for both the primary and secondary
systems; and provided further that the State Highway Commission shall
expend such sums upon the secondary system of highways as shall be
necessary to completely and adequately maintain the said secondary
system of highways which said expenditure for maintenance only of the
said secondary system of highways shall be at least the sum of five mil-
lion dollars in each fiscal year.