Chap. 169.—An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to require
and make reasonable charges for permits to place poles, wires and sub-surface
structures under, along, in or across certain roads and streets, and to enforce
such ordinances by appropriate penalties; and to prescribe what may be done
when any such permit is refused or is granted conditionally. {H B 315]

Approved March 10, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors or other governing body of any county adjoining a
city having a population of one hundred and seventy-five thousand in-
habitants or more according to the last preceding United States census, or
any county which has adopted the county executive form of county
government, may adopt ordinances requiring any person, firm or cor-
poration to obtain permits from the county engineer or such other officer
as may be designated in said ordinance before placing any pole, or sub-
urface structures under, along or in any county road or street in such
county which is not included within the Primary or Secondary System
yf State Highways, or any lines or wires that cross any such road or
treet, whether or not such road or street be actually opened, and to
srovide in such ordinances reasonable charges for the issuance of such
yermits, and penalties for violations of the terms of such ordinances to
ye imposed by the court, judge or justice trying the case.

In the event the county engineer or such other officer as may be
lesignated fails or refuses to issue such permit within thirty days after
upplication therefor, or attaches to such permit conditions to which such
person, firm or corporation is unwilling to consent, then such person, firm
or corporation may proceed to make such crossing pursuant and subject
1o the provisions of section thirty-eight hundred and eighty-five of the
Code of Virginia, as if said application had been made to the board of
supervisors of the county.