Chap. 135.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 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, causewavs, 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 High-
way 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 31, 1932, as heretofore amended, so as
to increase the amount of money, to provide the manner and terms of payment,
and how the money shall be expended. [S B 83]

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section nine 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 appro-
priate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elec-
tions in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to
repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.”, approved March
thirty-first, nineteen hundred thirty-two, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted, and that the said act be further amended by
adding thereto a new section numbered eleven-b, so that the said amended
section and the said new section shall read 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 pre-
ceding 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 in-
habitants, and ir 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 connecting 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 maintenance 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 im-
provement, including construction and reconstruction of streets, roads
and bridges within such town or city, subject to the approval of the State
Highway Commission, the sum of four thousand 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 remaining two-thirds thereof to be paid from
State highway construction funds allocated to the construction district
in which such town or city is located. Plans and specifications for con-
struction and reconstruction shall be approved by the State Highway
Commissioner.

The fund allotted by the Commission shall be paid in equal sums in
each quarter of the fiscal year, and no payment shall be made without the
approval of the State Highway Commission.

The town or city receiving this fund will be required to make quar-
terly reports accounting for all expenditures, and certifying that none
of the money received has been expended for other than the maintenance,
improvement, construction or reconstruction of the roads and streets in
such town or city.