Chap. 225.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of Chapter 415, Acts of 1932,
approved March 31, 1932, and relating to the establishment of the secondary
system of State highways and providing for the maintenance and improvement
thereof, so as to determine the population of incorporated towns and cities by
the last preceding United States census in lieu of the census of 1920. [S B 154]

Approved March 14, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
nine 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 9. The State Highway Commissioner, subject to the ap-
proval of the State Highway Commission shall select such streets and
roads, or portions thereof, in incorporated towns and cities having more
than thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants according to the last preced-
ing United States census, and in all towns situated within one mile of the
corporate limits of a city of the first class and having a population in
excess of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants according to the census
of nineteen hundred and thirty, and in all cities operating under a charter
designating them as cities notwithstanding the number of inhabitants, and
in all towns having a population in excess of thirty-five hundred (3,500)
inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census through
which pass any primary road in the State highway system directly con-
necting and over which moves a substantial portion of the traffic between
two cities of the State each of which has a population in excess of forty
thousand (40,000) inhabitants according to the said census as may, in his
judgment be best for the handling of traffic in such towns and cities, from
or to any road in the State highway system, and from time to time make
such changes in the selection thereof as may be reasonable and proper.
If such streets and roads, or portions thereof, in such towns or cities so
selected by the State Highway Commissioner shall, in the opinion of the
State Highway Commission, be maintained up to the standard of main-
tenance of the State highway system adjoining such town or city, the
State Highway Commissioner shall cause to be paid to such town or city,
to be used by it in the maintenance and improvement, including construc-
tion and reconstruction, of streets, roads and bridges within such town or
city, subject to the approval of the State Highway Commission, the sum
of twenty-five hundred dollars each year for each mile of such streets and
roads, or portions thereof, selected by the State Highway Commissioner
under the provisions of this section within such town or city, one-third
thereof to be paid from State highway maintenance funds and the remain-
ing two-thirds thereof to be paid from State highway construction funds
allocated to the construction district in which such town or city is located.
In addition thereto, the State Highway Commissioner is authorized and
directed, whenever in the opinion of the State Highway Commission it is
advisable that any such street or road, or portion thereof, including
bridges in any such town or city, selected by the State Highway Commis-
sioner under the provisions of this section, be constructed or recon-
structed, to pay, or caused to be paid, to such town or city on account of
such construction or reconstruction, from State Highway construction
funds allocated to the construction district in which such town or city is
located, such sum as the State Highway Commission may determine, not
to exceed five hundred dollars annually for each mile of such streets and
roads, or portions thereof, selected by the State Highway Commissioner
under the provisions of this section, within such town or city, provided
such construction or reconstruction shall be done in accordance with plans
and specifications approved by the State Highway Commissioner.